The Mythology Book by DK

Author:DK
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780241353219
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

IN BRIEF

THEME

Mortality

SOURCES

Tablets found in the Library of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria (c. 668–627 BCE), at Nineveh; The Epic of Gilgamesh, Benjamin Foster, 2001.

SETTING

Uruk, a city in Sumer, southern Mesopotamia, after the Great Flood.

KEY FIGURES

Gilgamesh King of Mesopotamia.

Enkidu Close friend of Gilgamesh.

Shamash God of the sun and of justice.

Ishtar Goddess of fertility and war.

Utnapishtim An immensely wise, immortal man.

The story of Gilgamesh follows the eponymous hero as he wrestles with the inevitability of death, discovers true friendship, and comes to understand the responsibilities of kingship. The long poem known as The Epic of Gilgamesh is among the world’s earliest known works of great literature, and weaves together a series of tales thought to have been inspired by a king who ruled the Sumerian city of Uruk between 2800 and 2500 BCE.

The goddess Aruru, she washed her hands, took a pinch of clay, and threw it down … in the wild, she created Enkidu.

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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