gilgamesh

     

Aapa, Enkidu Enmerkar, Geshtinanna Gilgamesh, Lugalbanda Shamhat, Siduri Tammuz, Utnapishtim

Trivia about gilgamesh

  • This guy's epic was found preserved on 12 tablets in the ruins of Nineveh
  • The epic poem of this Sumerian king includes an account of a great flood
  • Sumerian epic hero who faced an apocalyptic flood
  • Ashurbanipal's library in Nineveh included a copy of the famous epic of this Sumerian king
  • Raised by animals, Enkidu was a companion of this Sumerian hero