Read More about Gilgamesh
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The Epic of Gilgamesh was inscribed on stone tablets a thousand years before the Iliad was written.
Gilgamesh was a king who embarked on a quest to slay the beast Grendel and find immortality. It is generally considered by scholars that Gilgamesh did in fact exist and that he was a king of Uruk in about the 26th Century BC.
If you want to understand and learn about epic fantasy right from its beginning this is the place to start. There is good reason for this story having survived so long.
This epic has been recently released in an easy to read and well translated version and for a story like this that was probably told verbally for many generations you may want to consider getting the audio version -To hear this story rather than read it brings a sense of tribal connection.
(If you like the epic fantasy from this period you may want to try The First Heroes a collection of stories written today but that take place in the Bronze Age.)
