Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 12 Jun
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You're Dead to Me · Epic of Gilgamesh: myths and heroes in ancient Mesopotamia · 13 Mar 2026
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Don't think about it.
I mean, snakes are quite, you know, they're good and bad in mythology of ancient Mesopotamia.
So they're ambiguous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, so he finally returns to Uruk and we have this scene that reprises the very beginning of the myth where he's looking, he's surveying the city.
And he seems far more aware now of what's at stake.
He looks at the different elements that make up the city, civilization, human life.
And sees that it's more important than his own ego and individual success.
And he is wiser.
He finally brings that wisdom back to Uruk and will ideally incorporate it into how he rules.
And this kind of personal growth narrative has led some scholars to call it wisdom literature.
But who knows exactly?
It kind of has everything.
Yeah, that's part of it.
But as a group, we can still live together.
Yeah.
He writes his, you know, his quests down on a, I think it's a lapis lazuli tablet and he buries it somewhere in the wall and he says someone will find this someday and remember me.
And lo and behold, here we are.
Remembering Gilgamesh.
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