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Notes on video lecture:
Enkidu Introduced to Culture Via Shamhat
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 19, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Arabian, mirror, wall, wedding, enemy, rape, earthly, council, gods, city, rails, clamorous, Babylonian, wonderful, less, Enkidu, seduces, control, surprises, prostitute, virtuous, city
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what are the problems of a ruler who is going off the            like Gilgamesh?
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he's starting how sleeping with women on their                nights
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overtaxing the population
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he's making young men work to build his great          around his city
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abusing his own population
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Sumerian kings are usually                   
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never do anything wrong
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the king has a                of infinitely wise counselors
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gods, however, are                   
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a way of working through tensions in the                society
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Gilgamesh
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is an autocrat, nobody knows what to do
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the towns people pray to the          to help them
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in older                      chronicles
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the king and his wise counselors always know the story their in
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they know what's going on
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nothing ever                    the good counselor
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the evil king who is your            may be taken by surprise
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but never your king or your counselors
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but here the gods send down              into the countryside who then starts messing up in the countryside
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becomes a              image of Gilgamesh
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he's messing up the country as Gilgamesh is messing up the         
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the country people go plead to Gilgamesh
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Gilgamesh sends out the temple                      Shamhat
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she                Enkidu, he comes back
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Gilgamesh doesn't understand that his clever ploy is actually the god's ploy to bring him under               
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still Enkidu has even          idea what is happening to him
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there is a theme here which is also in                poetry
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country life is better than the city
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the                  people are pastoralists in the fields
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Enkidu comes and sees Gilgamesh about to          a woman on her wedding night
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literature
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literature is on the side of the          versus the country
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literature is on the side of power
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writing is developed for economic, judicial and religious purposes

Spelling Corrections:

clamerous ⇒ clamorous
Goethe and Eckermann
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