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#StudentSpecial The Epic of Gilgamesh with Mel and Natasha
High School History Recap
English - May 08, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsHistory Education big history ancient history history education social studies high school philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This is our first #StudentSpecial. In these episodes we'll discuss some special interest topics with some of our students. In this one, Mel van Deventer and Natasha Peters join me to talk about the world's oldest written story. It was found on clay tablets in ancient Mesopotamia and tells the story of a famous king of Uruk. We lay out the different parts of the story and discuss some of the themes. We meet characters like Enkidu and Utnapishtim and consider the interesting twists in the story. We've drawn on the work of Professor Glenn S Holland @TheGreatCourses and Cynthia Stokes Brown at Oer Project.