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Tag Archives: Mesopotamia
An Assyrian Lamassu in London
The Myth Reading Group returns. Wednesday 17 October 2018 5.00 – 6.30 pm Room NTC.2.05 Our founding director, Leon Burnett, opens the new year of myth-exploration. The topic for this term is Animals and Mythical Creatures. In the build up … Continue reading
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Tagged animals & mythical creatures, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Leon Burnett, Mesopotamia, poetry
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Thursday 21 May: Myth and Terror
This week Dr. Ben Pestell introduces a discussion of “Myth and Terror”. Click the link to see our poster: P-Myth and Terror Myth Reading Group Thursday 21 May 1-2pm Room 5B.111 Extracts: The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Sophocles’ Antigone
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Tagged Antigone, Ben Pestell, Gilgamesh, Greek Tragedy, Mesopotamia, myth & emotion, Sophocles
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Tuesday 13 December: Inanna’s descent to the underworld
Myth Reading Group Tuesday 13 December 2011 5 – 6 p.m. Room 5A.330 For the final meeting of the term Marie-Louise Mederer will usher us, with Inanna, into the underworld. The text: Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer: The Descent … Continue reading
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Tagged Inanna, katabasis, Mesopotamia, sacrifice, underworld
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