Lecture series “History of Culture for Relocants”: Ancient Mesopotamia. Relocation with a return

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