Episode 2: Before the Flood (The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis)
Literature and History
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The Bloodstream of European Literature Is Latin and Greek, Close Quote
Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh and ancient Egyptian story of Sunuhe predate Homeric poems. Journeys to the underworld, in Sumerian epic of Inana and Dumuzi as well as Gilgamesh also predated Homeric epics by many centuries. The slaying of monsters abounds in Bronze Age literature such as Hittites, Babylonians, Assyrians.
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