Gilgamesh
This epic, written for Mesopotamia's famous Uruk King Gilgamesh, was completely forgotten until archaeologists unearthed the buried cities of the Middle East one by one in the last century.
These poems have a certain place in world literature, not because they were written fifteen hundred years before Homer's epic, but primarily because of the nature and type of the story they tell. The epic is a mixture of adventure, moral lesson and tragedy. Throughout the events, the question of mortality is addressed, knowledge is pursued, and people's escape from destiny is seen. Immortal gods cannot be tragic. If Gilgamesh is not the first human god, he is undoubtedly the first tragic hero about whom anything is known. It is the most beautiful epic poem written until Homer's Iliad appeared and has survived to the present day, and it is much older than the Iliad.
| Publisher | : | Avesta Publications |
| Number of pages | : | 136 |
| The heart | : | Turkish |