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Epic Hero (Gilgamesh Saga)
Smithsonian Magazine ^
| 5-1-2007
| Daqvid Damrosch
Posted on 05/01/2007 4:20:40 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
05/01/2007 4:20:42 PM PDT
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blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/01/2007 4:21:06 PM PDT
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blam
To: blam
I read that yesterday while home sick. Very interesting considering he was uneducated according to the standards of the day.
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posted on
05/01/2007 4:28:05 PM PDT
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doodad
To: blam
What a story! Great post. Thanks.
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05/01/2007 5:04:02 PM PDT
by
rogue yam
To: blam
Great article. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
05/01/2007 5:09:48 PM PDT
by
Captain Rhino
( Dollars spent in India help a friend; dollars spent in China arm an enemy.)
To: blam
I have have a friend of mine who's rather disreputable ancestor was British Council at Smyrna, when Layard went to Nineveh, terrible drunk, according to his family lore.
Booze seemed be a problem in the family, his great grandfather was exiled, by the family, to the US and was on that Gun Boat, on display at Vicksburg, when it was sunk. (He had the papers on both)
We start talking about it because I had several family members in US and CSA units at the siege and surrounding fights.
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posted on
05/01/2007 5:35:56 PM PDT
by
Little Bill
(Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
To: blam
Outstanding story! Thanks for posting.
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posted on
05/01/2007 5:49:11 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: blam
“Darmok and Picard at Tanagra.”
To: blam
Thank you for the great read!
To: blam
Very interesting article Blam. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
05/01/2007 6:52:15 PM PDT
by
Redhd2
To: blam
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posted on
05/01/2007 8:47:02 PM PDT
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: blam
Not only was this the first “Hero’s Journey” literature, it also featured the first ‘sidekick’ partner, Enkidu.
Think about that. Gabby Hayes was merely one of a 5,000 year, long line of sidekicks to action heroes.
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05/01/2007 8:57:22 PM PDT
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wildbill
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05/01/2007 9:53:44 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I last updated my profile on Saturday, April 28, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: blam
He and Schliemann!
:-)
Drive a nail through the “elite” old archaeologists.
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posted on
05/02/2007 5:39:24 AM PDT
by
bannie
To: wildbill
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05/02/2007 6:09:16 AM PDT
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blam
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Righter's ping.
Thought this might be an interesting bit about a famous piece of literature from anitiquity.
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posted on
05/02/2007 7:20:05 AM PDT
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JamesP81
(Eph 6:12)
To: JamesP81
This was a classical hero. Modern literary heroes are mere shadows.
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posted on
05/02/2007 7:38:21 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: JamesP81
Thanks for the ping.
Interesting article.
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posted on
05/02/2007 7:40:36 AM PDT
by
marsapan
To: blam
Excellent article, thanks for posting.
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posted on
05/02/2007 7:56:31 AM PDT
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Dustbunny
(The BIBLE - Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth)
To: mad_as_he$$
GMTA :) But it was “Darmok and Gilaad at Tanagra”. I forget what the alien captain’s name was, offhand. Oh, I’m such a Star Trek geek.
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05/02/2007 8:06:46 AM PDT
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