gilgamesh

Much of the earliest literature such as the Epic of Gilgamesh is on how to catch and keep slaves.

The epic of gilgamesh came from mesopotamia, the land of a hundred city-kings perpetually at war with each other.

I can only analyse the epic of Gilgamesh so many times before no additional value is added.

Michael Ondaajte: In the Skin of a Lion <-- a modern retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh via immigrant settlers in early 20th century Toronto.

Key difference is that rational people in 2014 aren't claiming that Zeus may strike you down with a lightning bolt or thinking that Gilgamesh was divinely inspired.

I don't understand the remark about Gilgamesh (or really, about the analects...).

It's a good one because like Gilgamesh it was created outside of the constant necessary glorified warfare world of the Old Testament and the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Mitchell's Gilgamesh is one of those cases.

I just know that Gilgamesh is one of the oldest.

From the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Bible to modern Stalinism, we see that effort by powerful people to turn the rest of humanity into a machine that will exert their own will.

There are much finer examples of ancient literature, surviving versions of the Epic of Gilgamesh can be as old as the Code of Hammurabi, some Old Babylonian tablets from 1800 BCE survive though the version Sîn-lēqi-unninni compiled in Akkadian is a relative latecomer at 1200 BCE.

In Gilgamesh, which is a much older book, the world is vast, lonely and mysterious and man's primary struggle is with the forces of nature.

Now, my jalapeno sauce was about as epic as the adventures of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk.

We studied the book of Ruth in an ancient literature course in high school, along with Gilgamesh, et al.