Add to ORKGThis article examines moments of suffering in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Initially Gilgamesh himself causes much suffering by abusing his power as king and tormenting his subjects day and night. Enkidu is created to curb the king’s energy and to alleviate the distress of the people. Gilgamesh’s greatest joy in finding a true friend also turns into his greatest sorrow when Enkidu becomes ill and dies. Gilgamesh is inconsolable and his suffering drives him away from his palace and his city, in search of life everlasting. When a snake snatches away his last hope of living forever, he realises that life eternal is to be found in life here and now. The article concludes with some suggestions of appropriating Elizabeth Kubler Ross’ five stages of gri...
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, a Babylonian poem written during the late second millennium BCE, presents a first...
Stories of heroes undergoing significant transformations are as old as stories themselves. The first...
More than 3,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians wrote about the ad-ventures of Gilgamesh, the king of t...
This article examines moments of suffering in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Initially Gilgamesh himself cau...
According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, King Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find immortality and thu...
Gilgamesh, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, is known as the world’s first hero being from the first epic ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian narrative poem that recounts the adventures of the eponymous K...
Until about one hundred and fifty years ago all that modern people knew about the Babylonian hero-ki...
Gilgamesh was a mythical king who ruled the city of Uruk around 2800 BCE. His quests were collected ...
Studying myths with psychoanalytic understanding is an attempt as old as psychoanalysis itself. Bein...
By offering a reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh as a psychological map of the process by which one jo...
This article examines several parallels between the Gilgamesh Epic and the Old Testament. Due to the...
The Epic of Gilgamesh attempts to answer the question of how, given the finality of death, one might...
This article presents an Old Babylonian fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh now in the Suleimaniyah Mu...
One of the main, initial thesis of the article is that in the tragedies `Hρακλής μαινόμενος by Euri...
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, a Babylonian poem written during the late second millennium BCE, presents a first...
Stories of heroes undergoing significant transformations are as old as stories themselves. The first...
More than 3,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians wrote about the ad-ventures of Gilgamesh, the king of t...
This article examines moments of suffering in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Initially Gilgamesh himself cau...
According to the Epic of Gilgamesh, King Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find immortality and thu...
Gilgamesh, from the Epic of Gilgamesh, is known as the world’s first hero being from the first epic ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian narrative poem that recounts the adventures of the eponymous K...
Until about one hundred and fifty years ago all that modern people knew about the Babylonian hero-ki...
Gilgamesh was a mythical king who ruled the city of Uruk around 2800 BCE. His quests were collected ...
Studying myths with psychoanalytic understanding is an attempt as old as psychoanalysis itself. Bein...
By offering a reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh as a psychological map of the process by which one jo...
This article examines several parallels between the Gilgamesh Epic and the Old Testament. Due to the...
The Epic of Gilgamesh attempts to answer the question of how, given the finality of death, one might...
This article presents an Old Babylonian fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh now in the Suleimaniyah Mu...
One of the main, initial thesis of the article is that in the tragedies `Hρακλής μαινόμενος by Euri...
Ludlul bēl nēmeqi, a Babylonian poem written during the late second millennium BCE, presents a first...
Stories of heroes undergoing significant transformations are as old as stories themselves. The first...
More than 3,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians wrote about the ad-ventures of Gilgamesh, the king of t...