Ancients: Myths and Meaning

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Author: SJ Murray, Ph.D., Professor of Great Texts, Baylor U.

Content: This brief introduction is intended as a primer for learners setting out on their own journey to understand the traditions of the ancient world. In my own great texts courses on “Ancients” at Baylor University, we spend a few days thinking about how myth shaped meaning and understandings of morality in the ancient world. In this unit, you’ll be introduced to three formative myth traditions:

• The Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh and Poetry by Enheduana, the world’s first known named author;

• The Egyptian Book of the Dead;

• And Plato’s Myth of Er from the end of the Republic.

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