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Mesopotamian epic Jiang treats as a bureaucratically shaped kingship story about humility, service, and immortality through remembered deeds.
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Epic of Gilgamesh
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...that it should be. Okay. Now let's talk about the Epic of Gilgamesh. So there are two major literary achievements of Mesopotamia. The first..."
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The first work of world literature in Jiang's lecture and Mesopotamia's answer to the Egyptian pyramid model of immortality.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is treated as the first work of world literature and as a text that reflects Mesopotamian culture and values.
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"...that it should be. Okay. Now let's talk about the Epic of Gilgamesh. So there are two major literary achievements of Mesopotamia. The first..."
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"...into a much larger area these stories themselves become consolidated. So, Gilgamesh was basically different heroes. One king comes to dominate a region. Then..."
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"...immortal just as the pyramids made they just immortal the Epic of Gilgamesh and today we celebrate the Epic of Gilgamesh as the first..."
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"...struggle is remembered and celebrated by the people in the epic of Gilgamesh. Okay? So this is a reflection of the values of Mesopotamia...."
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"...becomes even more exaggerated it becomes consolidated. Just as the epic of Gilgamesh. Okay? But then what happens is the bearcrats take over. Okay?..."
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"...humans just saw them as, like, gods. So remember the Epic of Gilgamesh? Well, Gilgamesh was a nephahim. And so we started to... We..."
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"...like writing cuneiform also they introduced world literature right? The Epic of Gilgamesh. What I want to argue now is the legacy of the..."
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"...humans of Egypt, okay? The humans in Egypt. But the epic of Gilgamesh is also a testament to the tremendous creativity of that civilization,..."
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