Notes on Textbook Pages 64-82

The Epic

• Epics--> Long narrative poems that celebrated adventures of legendary heroes
• Heroes were role models for their times.
• Gilgamesh--> An ancient Near Eastern poem about 4,000 years old
• Iliad--> A Greek poem that is almost 3,000 old 
• Heroes-->Role models for modern time period
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Gilgamesh: The Prologue

• Gilgamesh built the city of Uruk
• Son of Lugalbanda/Lady Wildcow Ninsun
• Perfect warrior
• Two-thirds a god/one-third a man
• Uruk-->Ancient Sumerian city

Iliad

• Hektor (Trojan) has killed Achilleus's (Greek) best friend
• Achilleus wishes nothing but the death of Hektor
• Achilleus and Hektor fight
• Hektor pleads with Achilleus--> Achilleus too consumed by anger
• Achilleus eventually kills Hektor 

A History of the English Church and People

• Bede gives the geographic details of Britain at beginning of work
• Bede tells of the different seasons in Britain
• Presently there are 5 languages and 4 nations within Britain
• British men shared wives with the Scots--> Ruler chosen only from the female royal line, not male
• Bede describes the island of Ireland in detail

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

• In the year 896, Britain split between the East and North
• Danes caused much destruction along the sea-coast
• In the year 900, Alfred, the king of all of England passed away
• His son Edward took the thrown
• Peace between North and East occurred during the year of 906