Lecture series “History of Culture for Relocants”. Meeting three: “Ancient Mesopotamia. Relocation with return, or the meaning of relocation when things went wrong”

Third of five meetings of the lecture series “History of Culture for Relocants” on the topic “Ancient Mesopotamia. Relocation with return, or the meaning of relocation when things went wrong”. Analysis of the “Epic of Gilgamesh” as the first story of a failed relocation: why the epic appeared in the Land Between the Rivers, Gilgamesh's motivation problems, the connection between his journey and the experience of moving, an instruction “how not to do it”, and the question of the meaning of relocation when returning. The lecture is led by Alyona Viktorovna Makarova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, lecturer in the History of Culture of the Ancient World.