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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A quest for immortality
The Forum
Mesopotamian Epic Poetry
The Gilgamesh epic was written out and not by young school boys for whom it was too difficult as Enrique has said. There must have been oral narratives alongside the written epic about Gilgamesh containing perhaps the same episodes perhaps different episodes but we can't know anything about them because they're oral, he says. It's easy to forget that the epic of Gilgamesh had to be reassembled from what are sometimes tiny fragments and sometimes amalgamated from different sources.
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