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The Epic of Gilgamesh: Existential Quandaries and the Quest for Meaning in Ancient Mesopotamia
Emerging from the fertile plains of ancient Mesopotamia, the Epic of Gilgamesh resonates with profound existential inquiries still relevant today. Gilgamesh, the formidable king of Uruk, embodies the human grappling with mortality, purpose, and the limitations of...
We are choked with news, starved of history
We of this generation give too much time to news about the transient present, too little to the living past. We are choked with news, and starved of history. We know a thousand items about the day or yesterday, we learn the events and troubles and heartbreaks of a...