Why Does The Epic of Gilgamesh Still Matter? (w/ SOPHUS HELLE)
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- You all have asked ENDLESSLY for a conversation like this, and so today I am delighted to give you this video: I'm sitting down with Dr Sophus Helle - author and translator - to talk about the magic of the Ancient Mesopotamian "Epic Of Gilgamesh".
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Further Reading -
Andrew George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic - Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts:
John Huehnergaard, A Grammar of Akkadian:
Tikva Frymer-Kensky, In the Wake of the Goddesses:
Nicole Brisch, “Šamḫat: Deconstructing Temple Prostitution One Woman at a Time”, in Powerful Women in the Ancient World:
Andrea Deagon, “The Twelve Double-Hours of the Night: Insomnia and Transformation in Gilgamesh”:
The Enheduana website: enheduana.org. And specifically the annotated translation of the Exaltation: enheduana.org/exaltation.
And Sophus' own article on philology: sophushelle.com/2022/12/01/wh...
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Gilgamesh's destiny is our own destiny, namely to discover our own immortality without losing it to the snake.
This made me so pumped to read Gilgamesh! Great interview!
Thank you 🫶🏼
This interview was truly insightful about the myth ( because I ABSOLUTELY knew nothing about this)
Thank you for introducing this to me, both of you!
Thanks for watching the interview!! ✨
Loved his enthusiasm and comments. Will definetely get this translation, as well as Eheduanna's. Thank you very much for keeping up this channel with such interesting talks and topics Erica ❤❤
Thanks for watching 💖
I am definitely going to follow this man and his subject!!! Am going to his website ASAP. Thank you Erica you just opened a new door for me !!
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Keep up the excellent work, Erica 😊
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I love Helle's Enheduanna translation❤
It’s fantastic!!!
This was an amazing interview. Added so many books to my list. I just love all the human touches that have survived. That would be a fun book to capture all those moments in one place. I'd definitely read that! I love your channel! Keep up the good work! ❤
Thank youuuuuu ❤️
Loved, loved, ❤’d this video! The epic of “Gilgamesh” is once of my favorites. I have not had a chance to read Mr. Helle’s but if I don’t purchase it today then I will shortly! (I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read so far of his translation.) Really enjoyed his discussion of why he chose to translate Shamhat’s title as he did. And thank you so, soooooooooo much for the “Further Reading” list!!! This is the first time I noticed it and now I’m REALLY in history/classics nerd heaven!!! ❤️🙌🔥
Thank you!!!!!
Thanks beautiful Erica for such a beautiful episode
My personal request would be to do a comparative analysis on Thus Spoke Zarathustra in relation to the Iliad. You will have to read the companion piece from Nietzsche called’Homer’s Contest’. Some say that Zarathustra is an experiment to creating a Homeric Christianity - food for thought.
This was excellent. Thank you for all your hard work.
Thank you for watching!
Excellent!!
It was SO FUN to wrack Dr Helle’s brain for this chat! 🤩
Anyway you could get Paul Cooper from The Fall of Civilizations podcast? Probably has the best history podcast out there and has amazing story telling of the various cultures he discusses
I can look into it, for sure!
Congratulations on +15K subscribers 🎉
THANK YOU 🫶🏼
Good thing he mentioned Amanda her book is stunning, you should have her as soon. I have to Add He is HOT!
some other reasons why Enheduanna is not known outside academia it can be Misogamy and Colonial classicism since her model is so similar to sappho and that can create comparative essies which in itself can lead to the opinion that Sappho was emulating her poems. or that she was a fictional character created in the alexandrine school after translating Enheduanna. Colonial classicism has tried to hijack the Greco roman heritage to present white supremacy and mythologize it as the creators of everything thus it was important to downgrade the older civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt in way keep that illusion robustly standing.
I know the name but I’m not that familiar with her work. But I absolutely adore Sappho’s work so will definitely look at more of Enheduanna’s poems!
Irving Finkel would be a great interview on Cuneiform
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