4. What do you know?
HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
5. What do you know?
HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
HOW LONG HAS HUMANKIND
BEEN AROUND FOR?
6. What do you know?
HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
HOW LONG HAS HUMANKIND
BEEN AROUND FOR?
POSSIBLY 7 MILLION YEARS,
AT LEAST 2.7 MILLION YEARS.
DEPENDS WHAT COUNTS AS A ‘HUMAN’.
7. What do you know?
HOW OLD IS PLANET EARTH?
ABOUT 4.6 BILLION YEARS OLD.
HOW LONG HAS HUMANKIND
BEEN AROUND FOR?
POSSIBLY 7 MILLION YEARS,
AT LEAST 2.7 MILLION YEARS.
DEPENDS WHAT COUNTS AS A ‘HUMAN’.
10. What do you know?
WHEN WAS WRITING INVENTED?
PEOPLE WERE MAKING PRIMITIVE MARKS 50,000 YEARS AGO.
MESOPOTAMIA (IRAN) USUALLY GETS CREDITED WITH ‘INVENTING’
WRITING ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO.
11. What do you know?
WHEN WAS WRITING INVENTED?
PEOPLE WERE MAKING PRIMITIVE MARKS 50,000 YEARS AGO.
MESOPOTAMIA (IRAN) USUALLY GETS CREDITED WITH ‘INVENTING’
WRITING ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO.
12. What do you know?
WHEN WAS WRITING INVENTED?
PEOPLE WERE MAKING PRIMITIVE MARKS 50,000 YEARS AGO.
MESOPOTAMIA (IRAN) USUALLY GETS CREDITED WITH ‘INVENTING’
WRITING ABOUT 6000 YEARS AGO.
EARLY WRITING
MESOPOTAMIA
C. 3000 BCE
14. What do you know?
WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF
LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
15. What do you know?
WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF
LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
POSSIBLY THE EPIC POEM
GILGAMESH; OLDEST WRITTEN
VERSION MIGHT DATE FROM
ABOUT 2200 BCE. IT ORIGINATES
IN SUMERIA (SOUTHERN
MESOPOTAMIA)
16. What do you know?
WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF
LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
POSSIBLY THE EPIC POEM
GILGAMESH; OLDEST WRITTEN
VERSION MIGHT DATE FROM
ABOUT 2200 BCE. IT ORIGINATES
IN SUMERIA (SOUTHERN
MESOPOTAMIA)
17. What do you know?
WHAT IS THE OLDEST PIECE OF
LITERATURE WE KNOW OF?
POSSIBLY THE EPIC POEM
GILGAMESH; OLDEST WRITTEN
VERSION MIGHT DATE FROM
ABOUT 2200 BCE. IT ORIGINATES
IN SUMERIA (SOUTHERN
MESOPOTAMIA)
THE ‘DELUGE’ TABLET
19. How old is the Bible?
PROBABLY
LARGELY
WRITTEN IN
MESOPOTAMIA,
SOME
SCHOLARS
ESTIMATE THE
OLD
TESTAMENT OR
THE TORAH
WAS WRITTEN
BETWEEN 1200
AND 200 BCE
20. How old is the Bible?
PROBABLY
LARGELY
WRITTEN IN
MESOPOTAMIA,
SOME
SCHOLARS
ESTIMATE THE
OLD
TESTAMENT OR
THE TORAH
WAS WRITTEN
BETWEEN 1200
AND 200 BCE
22. Who else was writing?
THE GREEKS!
HOMER - ILIAD AND ODYSSEY -
C. 1000 BCE (IF HE EXISTED)
SOPHOCLES -496 BCE-406 BCE
OEDIPUS REX - 429 BCE
23. Who else was writing?
THE GREEKS!
HOMER - ILIAD AND ODYSSEY -
C. 1000 BCE (IF HE EXISTED)
SOPHOCLES -496 BCE-406 BCE
OEDIPUS REX - 429 BCE
24. Who else was writing?
THE GREEKS!
HOMER - ILIAD AND ODYSSEY -
C. 1000 BCE (IF HE EXISTED)
SOPHOCLES -496 BCE-406 BCE
OEDIPUS REX - 429 BCE
SOPHOCLES
34. OLD ENGLISH: A poem
IC EOM WUNDERLICU WIHT WIFUM ON HYHTE
NEAHBUENDUM NYT; NÆGUM SCEÞÞE
BURGSITTENDRA NYMTHE BONAN ANUM.
STAÞOL MIN IS STEAPHEAH STONDE IC ON BEDDE
NEOÐAN RUH NATHWÆR. NEÞEÐ HWILUM
FUL CYRTENU CEORLES DOHTOR
MODWLONC MEOWLE ÞÆT HEO ON MEC GRIPE
RÆSEÐ MEC ON REODNE REAFATH MIN HEAFOD
FEGEÐ MEC ON FÆSTEN. FELEÞ SONA
MINES GEMOTES SEO ÞE MEC NEARWAÐ
WIF WUNDENLOCC. WÆT BIÐ ÞÆT EAGE.
35. And a translation
I AM A WONDERFUL HELP TO WOMEN
THE HOPE OF SOMETHING GOOD TO COME
I HARM ONLY MY SLAYER
I GROW VERY TALL, ERECT IN A BED
I AM SHAGGY DOWN BELOW
THE LOVELY GIRL GRABS MY BODY, RUBS MY RED SKIN
HOLDS ME HARD, CLAIMS MY HEAD.
THAT GIRL WILL FEEL OUR MEETING!
I BRING TEARS TO HER EYES!
WHAT AM I?
40. Middle English
A POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE
WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE,
BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE.
THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE,
SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF,
IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF,
FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE.
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
41. Middle English
A POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE A WIDOW POOR, SOMEWHAT ADVANCED IN AGE,
WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE, LIVED, ON A TIME, WITHIN A SMALL COTTAGE
BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE. BESIDE A GROVE AND STANDING DOWN A DALE.
THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE, THIS WIDOW, NOW, OF WHOM I TELL MY TALE,
SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF, SINCE THAT SAME DAY WHEN SHE'D BEEN LAST A WIFE
IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF, HAD LED, WITH PATIENCE, HER STRAIT SIMPLE LIFE,
FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE. FOR SHE'D SMALL GOODS AND LITTLE INCOME-RENT;
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
42. Middle English
A POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE A WIDOW POOR, SOMEWHAT ADVANCED IN AGE,
WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE, LIVED, ON A TIME, WITHIN A SMALL COTTAGE
BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE. BESIDE A GROVE AND STANDING DOWN A DALE.
THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE, THIS WIDOW, NOW, OF WHOM I TELL MY TALE,
SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF, SINCE THAT SAME DAY WHEN SHE'D BEEN LAST A WIFE
IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF, HAD LED, WITH PATIENCE, HER STRAIT SIMPLE LIFE,
FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE. FOR SHE'D SMALL GOODS AND LITTLE INCOME-RENT;
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
43. Middle English
A POVRE WYDWE, SOMDEEL STAPE IN AGE A WIDOW POOR, SOMEWHAT ADVANCED IN AGE,
WAS WHILOM DWELLYNG IN A NARWE COTAGE, LIVED, ON A TIME, WITHIN A SMALL COTTAGE
BISIDE A GROVE, STONDYNGE IN A DALE. BESIDE A GROVE AND STANDING DOWN A DALE.
THIS WYDWE, OF WHICH I TELLE YOW MY TALE, THIS WIDOW, NOW, OF WHOM I TELL MY TALE,
SYN THILKE DAY THAT SHE WAS LAST A WYF, SINCE THAT SAME DAY WHEN SHE'D BEEN LAST A WIFE
IN PACIENCE LADDE A FUL SYMPLE LYF, HAD LED, WITH PATIENCE, HER STRAIT SIMPLE LIFE,
FOR LITEL WAS HIR CATEL AND HIR RENTE. FOR SHE'D SMALL GOODS AND LITTLE INCOME-RENT;
CHAUCER, ‘THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE’
C. 1380 - 1400
