{"id":545,"date":"2013-09-23T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T15:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=545"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T11:59:03","slug":"dr-vybarr-cregan-reid-article-appears-in-the-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/09\/23\/dr-vybarr-cregan-reid-article-appears-in-the-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Vybarr Cregan-Reid article appears in The Telegraph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph this weekend (Saturday 21 September) featured an extensive article by School of English lecturer Vybarr Cregan-Reid. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/history\/10321147\/The-tragic-tale-of-George-Smith-and-Gilgamesh.html\">article<\/a>\u00a0chronicles the ill-fated journey of George Smith (the Victorian archaeologist and assyriologist) who rediscovered a lost tablet containing the text of <i>The Epic of Gilgamesh<\/i>. The poem (and its rediscovery) had a considerable impact on the Victorian period, the implications of which are still being considered to this day as Vybarr illustrates in the article:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The poem tells of the adventures of the king of Uruk in Mesopotamia from around 4,000 years ago. The reason that the Epic&#8217;s rediscovery caused such a controversy in the 1870s was that the King&#8217;s voyages were analogues for stories from the Old Testament, pressed into clay at least 1,000 years before the Bible&#8217;s first books and many centuries before Homer. The impact of the discovery challenged literary and biblical scholarship and would help to redefine beliefs about the age of the Earth.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Vybarr&#8217;s latest publication,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/indexer?product=9780719090516\"><i>Discovering Gilgamesh<\/i><\/a><i> <\/i>(Manchester University Press, 2013), which will be published next month, discusses George Smith&#8217;s extraordinary discovery in the context of Victorian notions of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph this weekend (Saturday 21 September) featured an extensive article by School of English lecturer Vybarr Cregan-Reid. The\u00a0article\u00a0chronicles the ill-fated journey of George Smith &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2013\/09\/23\/dr-vybarr-cregan-reid-article-appears-in-the-telegraph\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2400,"featured_media":546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}