Weekly Responses
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Topic: Looking Back on The Epic of Gilgamesh
Due: Sun Oct 6
Prompt: Using one particular passage or moment from the story, in your opinion what is The Epic of Gilgamesh about?
For your online response this week, focus on the image you’re most interested in and write a post that includes the following:
- Choose a particular moment, passage, or scene from The Epic of Gilgamesh that you think reflects one of the ideas the author was trying to communicate to their audience and briefly describe it.
- The moment you choose for this Response can be a moment that you are talking about in your essay as well.
- Talk about this scene and how it shows an idea you think the author was trying to emphasize in the Epic as a whole. This can relate to mortality, the gods, gender, family, marriage, identity, class, age, architecture, or any other aspewct of life in Sumerian society.
- The Epic is “about” more than one thing—the author is tryiong to get across a number of key ideas that reflect Sumerian cultural norms and expectations. If a lot of students have already posted with a psarticular theme, try and look for a different perspective or another thread of what the author was trying to say.
Responses for Week 6
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