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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A quest for immortality
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Gilgamesh Versions
We essentially have versions of Gilgamesh in the two main cunephone languages, so in Sumerian and Acadian. In the second millennium the gist of the poem seems to have been to celebrate Gilgamesh as a hero. The first millennium version is no longer an epic about a hero but it's a meditation about mortality and knowledge.
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