Gilgamesh of Uruk

kingship, friendship, and mortality actor who begins from unchecked power and is changed by an equal, loss, and failed… · Mesopotamian epic traditions from the second millennium BCE and later

Gilgamesh of Uruk is represented within Mesopotamian epic traditions from the second millennium BCE and later and mythic Uruk and ancient Mesopotamian literary worlds. Canon classification: legendary-epic character associated with a possibly historical king; surviving compositions are plural and fragmentary.