Internet image, difficult to source to an original, showing a Marsh Arab village during the 1970′s before the desertification caused by Saddam Hussein This is the third and final (for now, anyways) blog post of my mini-series on the Epic of Gilgamesh; the purpose of this post is to summarize, in ordinary language, the highly [...]
Image of a modern Marsh Arab house in traditional style taken from A Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East, by Michael Roaf (Facts on File, 2000) Before my most recent re-reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh, I never realized just now well-integrated into the story of Gilgamesh the Flood story was. There [...]
Line drawing of a cylinder seal impression by Joanna Richards, taken from “The Epic of Gilgamesh,” translated by Andrew George (Penguin Books, 2003) Although I have read the most famous part of the Epic of Gilgamesh–the flood story many times, I experienced unusual pleasure upon returning to this first epic odyssey in its entirety. This [...]
Unspeakably difficult times, actually. I can’t elaborate. But I need to do something.
…on technology. I’ve always thought that netbooks were silly; why pay $300 for a netbook when another two hundred can get you a full-fledged computer? (That said, I consider myself unable to adapt to anything other than a “dumb” phone.) Similarly, 2010 may be called by some “the year of the eBook,” but there’s no [...]
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