ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture 7: 7) Agonism 1
17 Jan 2017
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Google of the day - if you had a question, you went to the epic. What was done in the epic became proto-law. Tremendous social knowledge, how things should be done (guidebook on kingship in. These epics sometimes have strange contents (how to load a ship, build a cedar door). Narrative serves to tie these things together and make it memorable. Homer wrote around 800 bce; this epic was written around 2800 bce on clay tablets. In fertile crescent between tigris and euphrates rivers. Developing story around the same time as the city as a concept begins to unfold. Uruk still exists today (for now - uruk is south of baghdad; isis is near). Emerges out of environment that can be very unpredictable trying to create stability and structure. Out of nature, civilization and structure emerges. Implies more of a protector than a warrior, but gilgamesh kind of sucks at being a shepherd.
