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Episode 2: Before the Flood (The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis)

Literature and History

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In an essay called What is a Classic? The Great Modernist Poet and Scholar T.S. Eliot defines what makes a work of literature endure. This program covers two Bronze Age Mesopotamian epics, the Enuma Aleish and the Atrahasis. There is a web history, God come.

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