L'Epopée de Gilgames. Le grand homme qui ne voulait pas mourir. Proche et Moyen Orient Part IV: iconography and history

Part IV: iconography and history

Collection "Notes and Documents from the Museums of France" No

The author offers a new analysis of the papyrus

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L'Epopée de Gilgames. Le grand homme qui ne voulait pas mourir. Proche et Moyen Orient Part IV: iconography and historySome thirty five centuries old and far predating the Iliad and the Mahabharata, the Epic of Gilgamesh is the first known literary work whose breadth, strength, inspiration, height of vision and tone, the eminent and universal nature of its subject matter have earned, throughout the ancient Near East, a millennial celebrity and, in our judgment, the title of "epic." It tells the story of a great friendship, the source of superhuman successes, but