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Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and their Descendants A Short talk by Boria Sax, PhD

A Short talk by Boria Sax, PhD Lucian Boia’s “l’homme différent” Ape-like animals, from a natural History book of the early nineteenth Century

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  • A Short talk by Boria Sax, PhD
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  • Lucian Boias lhomme diffrent Ape-like animals, from a natural History book of the early nineteenth Century
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  • Adam, shown here naming the animals in a print from the eighteenth century, is similar to Enkidu in many respects
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  • Late Greek relief showing Prometheus creating man as the goddess Athena bestows gifts of wisdom
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  • The Expulsion from Paradise by Giovanni Di Paolo (1445)
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  • Assyro-Babylonian relief of Gilgamesh with a Lion The drive to dominance is a product of human frailty