Gilgamesh by Unknown5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() This version is considered to be ‘the classic’ Epic of Gilgamesh. The Standard Version of the poem was complied in the Akkadian language sometime in the first millennium BCE possibly by the writer Sîn-lique-unnini. His mother, Ninsun, was a goddess and his father, Lugalbanda, was the deified king of Uruk. During the long conversion process from oral to written language, Gilgamesh transformed from a flesh and blood human to part-god and part-mortal. ![]() Stories about him were handed down as part of the oral tradition. Gilgamesh was an actual person, a king, who ruled sometime between the pre-historic and historic age. This collection contains translations of both the Akkadian and Sumerian versions of the Gilgamesh epic along with Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (Bilgames in the Sumerian language) that relate to, but are not part of, the epic itself. ![]()
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