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Notes on video lecture:
Gilgamesh and the Story of the Flood
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on June 29, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
humanity, hero, life, worm, nested, grains, crowns, interpolated, Dust, Ishtar, sober, Enkidu, clay, late, Elysian, pans, Ziusudra, city, limits, mythic, Bible, within, goddess, immortal, episteme, anymore, death
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the flood story called attention to the Epic of Gilgamesh
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the flood story was known from the           
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the role the flood story plays in Gilgamesh
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comes          in the story
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feels like an                          tale, like a story within a story
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it's not the centerpiece of the drama of Gilgamesh and             
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there is an ancient tradition in the Near East of stories              stories
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in the 1000 and one knights we see this flowering
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they loved              tales
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it scales up the story of Gilgamesh to the story of                 
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as if the camera          out
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the Noah figure with an                  (something known, from ἐπίστασθαι, meaning "to know, to understand, or to be acquainted with)
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confronting Gilgamesh with the limits of humanity and human mortality
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the counterpoint to the story of Enkidu in the beginning of the epic who becomes human
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now at the end of the epic confronting the              of humanity
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asks the question: what is the difference between you and me, and the goddess              or the sun god Shamash
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the gods are immortal and see and know everything
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Utanapishtim
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name means "he who found         "
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episteme is life
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is tasked by Enki to abandon his worldly possessions and create a giant ship to be called Preserver of Life
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to bring his wife, family, and relatives along with the craftsmen of his village, baby animals, and             
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the oncoming flood would wipe out all animals and people not on the ship, a concept similar to the biblical story of Noah's Ark
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considers the limits of human life in relation to the world of animals and the world of the gods
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a contrast between the under world and the upper world
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when the flood comes, all of mankind is returned to         
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clay is what people are made up and what your          is made of
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when a flood comes through a baked clay city, it can actually just melt it away
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the city becomes the larger body of the         
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Utanapishtim becomes the closest thing to becoming immortal, and divine
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he and his wife life forever
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he knows, like                  (the main character from an earlier flood story), he is exceeding the wise one
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this story is also very realistic
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a serious,            view
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he lives on a blessed island
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you have to cross the waters of            to get there
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it looks a lot like the                Fields of Homer
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the most moving moment is the death of Enkidu
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and Gilgamesh's lament over him
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he can't accept it
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stays seven days and seven nights
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mirroring the lovemaking at the beginning
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sits by the corpse until a          comes out of the nose
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stark, realistic detail
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Utnapishtim survived the flood, his God allowed him to live forever
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asks Gilgamesh: who will do that for you
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the gods don't do that               
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we have to think of what Homer's attitude is toward these gods and goddesses
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the gods world is not our world
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our contact is very limited with them
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humans are looking forward to the House of         
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like the Hebrew Sheol
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not much going on
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drink muddy water for bear
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eat dust for your bread
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no difference between kings and servants
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there is a heap of              by the door: leave them as you come in
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there is dust on the doors, since people come in, but nobody ever goes out
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when Gilgamesh meets with Utanapishtim
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comes from a mythic background
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before the flood you had a kind of              possibility
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you could sleep with a               
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you could become                 
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after the flood, we are confined by the human world
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the flood separated the world of myth from the world of history
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