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The 19th Century Recovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal from 650 BC
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 16, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
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Assyria, mysterious, Nineveh, excavations, Islamic, preserve, 7th, ruins, Mitford, leisure, 1849, first, clay, book, Gilgamesh, 1200, Layard, law, world, funding, cuneiform, archeological, Near, Mosul, Jerusalem, colonial, disappeared
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the Epic of                    is the first great work of literature that has survived
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was the most popular work of literature in the ancient Near East in the second and            millennium before Christ
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then it disappeared and was dug up again, and became a work of            literature in a wholly new way
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the standard form of the epic was composed around          BCE
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circulated widely around the ancient          East
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to Western Persia
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north to Turkey
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as far East as                   
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translated into multiple languages that we know about
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the world of the                    [kyoo-NAY-a-form] world disappeared around 300-200 BCE
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people stopped knowing how to write cuneiform around this time
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the epic                       
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19th century
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group of explorers, archaeologist adventurers dug up the old capital of               , known from the Bible, lost for hundreds of years
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dug up the city of                and the palace of Assur-Bani-Pal (668-627 BC), King of the world and King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire (934–609 BC)
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he was barely known at all
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they found the            of his library
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had been destroyed by his enemies in the        century BCE
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but the texts of Gilgamesh and many other works were written on cuneiform          tablets
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baking clay makes is last longer, so burning it actually helped                  it
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Austen Henry              (1817-1894)
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1840s working as a        clerk in the London
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doesn't like the job
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they gave him a job as a                  administrator
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planned to go with Edward Mitford to Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
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               wanted to go the land route there because he got sea sick
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Layard hears of                      mounds in Iraq
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goes to           
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site of Nineveh
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starts digging and has luck, finds palace, and makes him palace
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he had to get               
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nobody in Europe cared enough to fund this                            research
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nobody in the Middle East cared about these pre-               pagan relics
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so he writes an adventure story
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writes the account of how he found Nineveh
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published in         
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audience was Anglo-Irish gentry, clergy, and ladies with               
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becomes member of parliament
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does more                       
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writes another         
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Goethe's Corpus and World Literature
The 19th Century Recovery of the Library of Ashurbanipal from 650 BC
Gilgamesh as World Literature
Themes from the Epic of Gilgamesh
Enkidu Introduced to Culture Via Shamhat
Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Humbaba and the Country
Gilgamesh and the Story of the Flood