6 April 2008
Massey Lectures 2007: The City of Words, Lecture 2, The Tablets of Gilgamesh
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Living together with our differences is understood as a practical project, mostly civic and political. But can stories, in all their variety, play a part? In the 2007 Massey Lectures, writer Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at living peacefully together, using the best that poets and writers have had to say about the matter. In his second lecture Manguel revisits the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh; a story of how a city was made magnificent and just.
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Further Information
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Publications
Title: The City of Words: Understanding civilisation through story
Author: Alberto Manguel
Publisher: Queensland University Press
Music
CD title:
Towards the sea
Track title:
Sonate pour flute et harpe, Adagio - presto
Artist: Robert Aitken/ Erica Goodman
Composer: Jean-Michel Damase
CD details: Grammofon AB BIS, Djursholm: BIS CD 650
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