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The Trial and Death of Socrates

For this assignment we will focus on the Trial and Death of Socrates. In Apology, Socrates famously asserts that “the unexamined life isn’t worth living for a human being” (55). How could this very well describe Gilgamesh for much of the epic? Yet what happens at the end of the epic to change Gilgamesh, and how does he change?

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Requirements: 5 pages or longer; Times New Roman or Garamond 12 Font only; double-spaced; 1-inch margins all around; MLA-style citation and formatting; no outside research—just you, these texts, and the paper assignment, nothing else!! Based on your CLOSE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS of The Epic of Gilgamesh and/or The Trial and Death of Socrates, answer/consider one of the following prompts: 1) In Apology, Socrates famously asserts that “the unexamined life isn’t worth living for a human being” (55). How could this very well describe Gilgamesh for much of the epic? Yet what happens at the end of the epic to change Gilgamesh, and how does he change?

The Trial and Death of Socrates

2) Consider the following assertion: for much of his life, Gilgamesh learns death from life, but near the end of the epic learns life from death, a shift that accompanies his shift from God to human. Explain/explore. 3) Consider the following assertion (from a Sophocles scholar, but applicable to Gilgamesh as well): “We understand ourselves in our mortal condition only when we have grasped our relation to the interconnected powers of nature, death, and the gods. But this is tragic knowledge because we can reach and possess it only by suffering.” Explain and explore through an analysis of Gilgamesh.

The Trial and Death of Socrates

4) Socrates asserts that “the unexamined life isn’t worth living for a human being” (55). Based on your close analysis of both Euthyphro and Apology–what does he truly and deeply mean, and how/why does he contrast “human” versus “super-human” wisdom as a key element of this assertion? 5)What does it mean to be human and not a God in both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Trial and Death of Socrates? 6) What are the dangers of “super-human” “wisdom” as illustrated in both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Trial and Death of Socrates? 7) Another famous maxim associated with Socrates is that we must “know thyself” and “hate hubris” (32). This is not some feel-good hippie sentiment.

The Trial and Death of Socrates

Socrates urgently believed that ignorance and deficient self-knowledge led to evil. Based on your analysis of both Trial and Death of Socrates and Gilgamesh—what does he mean? How can we see this demonstrated by Gilgamesh, Euthyphro, and the citizens of Athens? Make an overarching argument, then develop this argument via direct, rigorous, and sustained textual engagement with Gilgamesh and/or Trial and Death of Socrates. In other words, you must work directly with many key passages, quotes, scenes from the text/s that help you to develop your central argument and subsidiary points; and you must quote properly from our edition/s of the texts (unless you are working with an alternative hard copy edition). https://youtu.be/WII135PgYs8

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