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Gilgamesh

[ gil-guh-mesh ]

noun

  1. a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.


Gilgamesh

/ ˈɡɪɡəˌɛʃ /

noun

  1. a legendary Sumerian king
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gilgamesh has a compound, which is intended, with some psychotherapy, to treat depression and anxiety.

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Tales of the relentless pursuit of a romantic interest date back to antiquity, turning up in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

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Flood stories live in the warp and weft of legends and religions and nations — Gilgamesh, Noah, the Greeks and Aztecs, the Norse and Native Americans.

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Perlin jokingly calls his “wood work” was inspired by a story from 5,000 years ago in southern Mesopotamia, recorded on a clay tablet as “The Epic of Gilgamesh.”

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Half a dozen of the main works are deliberately in dialogue with literary classics and ephemera, from sources as diverse as Mark Twain’s satirical monologues, James Joyce’s erotic letters, the Epic of Gilgamesh and “Antigone.”

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