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A five page paper defining the ancient story of Gilgamesh as an epic, and describing the characteristics that make it so. The paper argues that an epic recounts the saga of a hero or a heroic dynasty in a way that somehow represents the fortunes or belief system of an entire people, and in Gilgamesh it is possible to discern the essential beliefs of the people who composed the tale. Bibliography lists four sources.
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is possible to discern the essential beliefs of the people who composed the tale. Bibliography lists four sources. KBgilga4.wps The Epic of Gilgamesh by K. Bernardo, for
, Inc. October 2000 properly! The purpose of an epic is to recount the saga
of a hero or a heroic dynasty in a way that somehow represents the fortunes or belief system of an entire people. One of the earliest examples of the epic
is the Sumerian story of Gilgamesh. John Crocker notes that "Originally written before 1900 BC, and probably existing much earlier, the most complete version of this tale belonged to the
seventh century library of Assurbanipal, antiquary and last great king of the Assyrian Empire. He sent out his servants to search the archives of Babylon, Uruk and Nippur to copy
and translate into the contemporary Akkadian Semitic those texts which were in the older Sumerian language of Mesopotamia. Additional translations of Sumerian texts have carried the history of the epic
back into the third millennium BC" (Crocker, gilgamesh.htm). A website adds that "Most of the poems of this epic were already written down in the first centuries of the second
millennium BC, but probably existed in much the same form many centuries earlier" ("Gilgamesh," gilgamesh.html). Gilgamesh tells the story of a mighty man, part god, part mortal, whose
ego was as boundless as his strength. The most noteworthy characteristic of the young Gilgamesh is that he is ruthless; "no son is left with his father. . . .
His lust leaves no virgin to his lover, neither the warriors daughter nor the wife of the noble" (Gilgamesh, 13). "None," the author tells us, "could withstand his arms" (Gilgamesh,
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