The first legends about Gilgamesh came from several different sources and told distinct stories. These fragments - Sumerian poems dating back as far as 2100 BCE - were later incorporated into the full Epic of Gilgamesh as it is known today. The first complete version of the Epic dates back to Assyrian Mesopotamia and was written around 1200 BCE, though the complete epic may have existed in Babylonian Mesopotamia as early as 1800 BCE.
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| - The first legends about Gilgamesh came from several different sources and told distinct stories. These fragments - Sumerian poems dating back as far as 2100 BCE - were later incorporated into the full Epic of Gilgamesh as it is known today. The first complete version of the Epic dates back to Assyrian Mesopotamia and was written around 1200 BCE, though the complete epic may have existed in Babylonian Mesopotamia as early as 1800 BCE.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh is based on an ancient story from Sumer; the standard version is written in Babylonian. It is about the plight of a god-like man, Gilgamesh (the king of Uruk), who befriends Enkidu, a man who grew up alone in the wilderness and who initially persuades Gilgamesh to be a better, less tyrannical ruler. Gilgamesh and Enkidu's adventures include slaying the ogre Humbaba in order to claim his stores of timber. The goddess Ishtar attempts to seduce Gilgamesh, but he rejects her, enraging the gods, who send the Bull of Heaven to punish him. Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay the bull, but when Enkidu taunts the gods about this, they decree his death. Gilgamesh mourns his friend at length, then travels in search of his ancestor, Uta-napishtim, who possesses the secret of immortality. A
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| - The Deluge tablet of the Gilgamesh epic in Akkadian
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| - The first legends about Gilgamesh came from several different sources and told distinct stories. These fragments - Sumerian poems dating back as far as 2100 BCE - were later incorporated into the full Epic of Gilgamesh as it is known today. The first complete version of the Epic dates back to Assyrian Mesopotamia and was written around 1200 BCE, though the complete epic may have existed in Babylonian Mesopotamia as early as 1800 BCE.
- The Epic of Gilgamesh is based on an ancient story from Sumer; the standard version is written in Babylonian. It is about the plight of a god-like man, Gilgamesh (the king of Uruk), who befriends Enkidu, a man who grew up alone in the wilderness and who initially persuades Gilgamesh to be a better, less tyrannical ruler. Gilgamesh and Enkidu's adventures include slaying the ogre Humbaba in order to claim his stores of timber. The goddess Ishtar attempts to seduce Gilgamesh, but he rejects her, enraging the gods, who send the Bull of Heaven to punish him. Gilgamesh and Enkidu slay the bull, but when Enkidu taunts the gods about this, they decree his death. Gilgamesh mourns his friend at length, then travels in search of his ancestor, Uta-napishtim, who possesses the secret of immortality. Although he finds Uta-napishtim, the gods refuse to grant him immortality, and he becomes a governor of the Sumerian underworld, known as the House of Dust. The epic is considered to be the oldest literary work in existence, and refers to a great flood, a boat and a bird sent to search for land, resembling the story of Noah's ark and the Flood in the Bible.
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