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The Epic of Gilgamesh is among the earliest known works of literature. An epic is a long poem that tells the story of legendary or heroic people or gods. Like most epics, the first stories of Gilgamesh began as oral fables handed down by word of mouth. Hundreds of years after the poets first spoke

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713-706 BCE Hero mastering a lion.Relief from the façade of the throne room,Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad Dur Sharrukin) H. 5.52m W.2.18m D.63cm Louvre Museum Acc.number AO 19862.Gilgamesh.Probably during the Middle Babylonian Period (c.1600 BC-c.1155 BC),a scribe named Sîn-lēqi-unninni composed the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian narrating Gilgamesh's heroic exploits. The opening of the poem describes Gilgamesh as "one-third human, two-thirds divine". The Epic Of Gilgamesh, Jungian Archetypes, Epic Of Gilgamesh, Throne Room, Louvre Museum, The Throne, Mesopotamia, A Lion, Lion Sculpture

713-706 BCE Hero mastering a lion.Relief from the façade of the throne room,Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad Dur Sharrukin) H. 5.52m W.2.18m D.63cm Louvre Museum Acc.number AO 19862.Gilgamesh.Probably during the Middle Babylonian Period (c.1600 BC-c.1155 BC),a scribe named Sîn-lēqi-unninni composed the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written in Akkadian narrating Gilgamesh's heroic exploits. The opening of the poem describes Gilgamesh as "one-third human, two-thirds divine".

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