Epic of Gilgamesh - Study Questions
Epic of Gilgamesh - Study Guide
About Babylonian Mythology
Reading mature themes with high schoolers:
Some of the content of The Epic of Gilgamesh is shall we say, mature. In my humble opinion, the "mature" topics are no worse than the "mature" topics of the Bible, so it should be read and discussed on the same level. Meaning, if you would not let your high schooler read the Bible because of the content then I would do the same with Gilgamesh, and vice versa.
The reason I chose to have Christian read this is for the historical significance. The Epic of Gilgamesh is thought to be one of the oldest - if not the oldest- recorded stories in the world. As a history fanatic, I couldn't pass that up.
We also happen to be reading about Mesopotamia in Speilvolgel's The Human Odyssey. He is doing a Civilization Worksheet for Mesopotamia (Thank you, Virginia Dawn!) and when answering one of the questions, read
Although historians (and your textbook) tend to emphasize Hammurabi and his code of law, the civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates area, among the first civilizations, focus rather on Gilgamesh and the legends accruing around him to explain, as it were, themselves.
We decided that since we covered Hammurabi in depth and skimmed Gilgamesh during the Logic stage we would cover Gilgamesh in depth and skim Hammurabi.
The above quote came from the article Gilgamesh Summary from the website World Civilizations and was written by Richard Hooker.
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