As part of the celebration of the University of Sydney’s 175th anniversary, the Assyrian Australian Association present Gilgamesh 2025. Join us for a two-day symposium exploring the legacy of the world’s first mythological epic and see the influence of Gilgamesh both ancient and modern. It also marks the 25th anniversary of the unveiling of the University of Sydney’s own statue of Gilgamesh created by Lewis Batos.
Hosted by the Australian Assyrian Association and the Patron of the 2025 Gilgamesh Cultural Festival, Garry Trompf Emeritus Professor in the History of Ideas, Dept. of Studies in Religion, School of Humanities, University of Sydney
12:30 pm - 4 pm
Dr Stephanie Dalley
Oriental Institute and Wolfson College; Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, University of Oxford
Discussing the Main Motifs of the Gilgamesh Epic depicted on the Golden Beaker of Hasanlu (probably 8th century BCE)
Prof. Simo Parpola
Emeritus Professor in Assyriology, University of Helsinki
The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Mission of Jesus Christ
Dr Daniel Mansfield
Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales
Proof before Euclid
12:30 pm - 4 pm
Dr Stephanie Dalley
Babylonian Version of the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Realities of Kingship in the Middle Bronze Age
Prof. Simo Parpola
Correspondence of Sargon II, with Reference to the Assyrian-English-Assyrian Dictionary
Dr Daniel Mansfield
Ancient Mesopotamian Surveying Techniques
Emeritus Professor Stephanie Dalley (University of Oxford) an archaeologist and Assyriologist who is known for her publications of cuneiform texts and investigation into the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, as well as her proposal that it was situated in Nineveh.
Emeritus Professor Simo Parpola (University of Helsinki), an Assyriologist specialising in the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Dr Daniel Mansfield (UNSW) an award-winning educator with an interest in Babylonian mathematics.
