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Senior College English The Epic of Gilgamesh Senior College English

The Epic A long narrative poem Includes a hero’s quest: A plot in which an extraordinary character goes on a difficult journey or mission, searching for a person, place, object of value, answer, or special knowledge Named for a Sumerian King who lived between 2700 and 2500 B.C Has timeless concerns: How to become known and respected How to cope with loss How to accept one’s own mortality

How did this story survive? Stories about King Gilgamesh were handed down by word of mouth for hundreds of years By 21st Century BC, the tale was written down When Babylonians conquered Sumerians, they inherited cultural traditions A Babylonian author created the start of the epic we have today Others writers modified the story, ultimately giving us the central theme: the search for immortality

Survival continued . . . After the fall of Babylonia, the story was lost; however, in 1880’s, archaeologists excavating Ashurbanipal’s (last king of Neo-Assyrian Empire) library found the poem on clay tablets in cuneiform (an early script)

The Story: Gilgamesh is an arrogant king of Uruk, an ancient Sumerian city Gods and goddesses frequently intervene in his life to provide challenges and tests Goddess Aruru creates Endiku for this reason; providing him a challenge and friend Gilgamesh undertakes other journeys in search of everlasting life; learning about the cycle of life

Took place in Mesopotamia

What is characterization?