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	<title>The Core Blog &#187; Gilgamesh</title>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #178: David Ferry on Storms</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/02/07/analects-of-the-core-178-david-ferry-on-storms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In view of the coming storm tomorrow, the Core would like to remind everyone to remain calm and intellectual. To aid this process, here is a sample from David Ferry&#8217;s Epic of Gilgamesh (studied in CC101), on the relevant topic of storms: &#8220;In the early hours of the next morning dawning there was the noise of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gilgamesh and David Ferry</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/03/gilgamesh-and-david-ferry/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/12/03/gilgamesh-and-david-ferry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his recent work Gilgamesh: An Epic Obsession (http://bit.ly/TDl2BN), Theodore Ziolkowski takes a look at the ways in which the epic has manifested into our literature, art, music, and popular culture. The students of CC101 experienced this through David Ferry, whose translation of Gilgamesh they read this semester. David Ferry has also written: Bewilderment  (http://bit.ly/RwrwnD), which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Gilgamesh-inflected indie film</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/10/11/a-gilgamesh-inflected-indie-film/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/10/11/a-gilgamesh-inflected-indie-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another film project inspired by a classic Core text! The Tube Open Movie is an ambitious 3D animated film project inspired by the Assyrian tablets in the British Museum whose fragments are all that we have of the original Gilgamesh story. The epic centers on the Sumerian king who ruled Uruk, in ancient Iraq, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gilgamesh unveiling at Harvard</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/09/12/gilgamesh-unveiling-at-harvard/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2012/09/12/gilgamesh-unveiling-at-harvard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Core students may be interested in attending the installation of the &#8220;Gilgamesh&#8221; sculpture at Harvard&#8217;s Museum of Natural History this Thursday, September 13th starting at 5:30 pm. The unveiling will be accompanied by a reading from translator David Ferry. Visit http://www.geomus.fas.harvard.edu for more information regarding the event.]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #129</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/13/analects-of-the-core-129/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/13/analects-of-the-core-129/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s visual Analect is an Assyrian bas relief from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, in Brunswick, Maine: &#8220;Winged Figured with Embroidered Tunic and Shawl&#8221;, from Northwest Palace, Nimrud, Iraq. Gypsum, 90 9/16 x 58 13/16 x 6 7/16&#8243;, 883-859 BC. Gift of Dr. Henri B. Haskell M 1855 (1860.2). Students may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #124</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/06/analects-of-the-core-124/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/09/06/analects-of-the-core-124/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrified gods got themselves up as high as they could go, nearest the highest heaven, cringing against the wall like beaten dogs. * Lines 20-22, in Book III of Tablet XI, of David Ferry&#8216;s &#8220;rendering in verse&#8221; of the Epic of Gilgamesh, studied in the first-year Core Humanties, and the topic of Prof. Brian Jorgensen&#8216;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #115</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/04/19/analects-of-the-core-115/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2011/04/19/analects-of-the-core-115/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CAS Core Curriculum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans are born, they live, then they die, this is the order that the gods have decreed. But until the end comes, enjoy your life, spend it in happiness, not despair. Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #16</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2010/09/29/analects-of-the-core-16/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2010/09/29/analects-of-the-core-16/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In view of a recent change in our department lounge refreshments policy &#8212; namely, we know set out a bowl of fresh fruit for students and visitors, rather than one filled with toothsome but unhealthy candy &#8212; today&#8217;s Analect of the Core has to do with food. From David Ferry&#8217;s version of the epic Gilgamesh, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with David Ferry, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2010/09/09/an-interview-with-david-ferry-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2010/09/09/an-interview-with-david-ferry-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To inaugurate the launch of the Core blog, Prof. David Eckel—Director of the Core Curriculum—conducted an interview with respected author and translator David Ferry, whose poetic rendering of Gilgamesh is the first book read by students in Core Humanities. This is the second half of that interview. [... in continuation of the interview from yesterday's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with David Ferry, Part 1</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2010/09/08/7/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2010/09/08/7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To inaugurate the launch of the Core blog, Prof. David Eckel—Director of the Core Curriculum—conducted an interview with respected author and translator David Ferry, whose poetic rendering of Gilgamesh is the first book read by students in Core Humanities. What follows is the first half of that interview; the second half will be posted tomorrow. [...]]]></description>
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