>starting with the Greeks >missing out on one of the greatest

Gilgamesh is pretty cool.

>>7496179
I'm going to finish the greeks, then go back to the Mesopotamians.

But that mans having too learn Mesopotamian for practically one work. At least with Greek i have a decent amount to work with.

>reading in translation

>>7496262
>Mesopotamian

Get it on with Gilgamesh

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>reading anything not written by dead white males

>>7496179
The other stuff didn't lead to anything. Only the Greeks had a lasting influence. Prove me wrong OP

just like this thread

>>7496731
The Greeks were black.

>>7496731
This
>>7496973
>we wuz philosophers and shieet

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>>7496179
>Enkidou on his deathbed
>Gilgamesh's final realization
Did anyone else cry?

>>7496731
>>7496989
Bloom included Gilgamesh in his summary of the Western canon
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/literature/bloom/complete.html

>>7496737
>Implying The Epic of Gilgamesh didn't influence the Jews and their bible

Fun fact: there are about one million cuneiform tablets found. We have five badly damaged copies of the epic of Gilgamesh and literally thousands of treatises on the correct interpretation of the livers of sacrified sheep. Plebs gonna pleb since 3000 BC, I guess.