Disarmed

After vocab quiz #3, we settled back into our partnerships to finish Beowulf and look at how Anglo-Saxon ideologies permeate the telling of an epic hero and his quest to vanquish the monster. Or, as Nick would sum up the moment of battle: "Do you need a sword, Grendel? You seem a little...disarmed." Following Beowulf Live, we moved onto the place we would not like to visit: 999. As noted, we were dismayed at the disease, death, darkness, and all around depravity that existed way back when. To end the show today, we looked at Gilgamesh, breaking into small groups to analyze the man, the buddy, and the monster (although, I will argue that Humbaba is not a monster and just an early version of an environmentalist). For Friday, read The Iliad portion in your textbook.