The epic of Gilgamesh is a story that tells us about the king Gilgamesh or Bilgamesh. Gilgamesh was a demigod which means he was half a god and half a human. Being a demigod granted him an overwhelming strength which he used to rule his people in Uruk (a city of Sumer that later becomes Babylonia) . According to Dalley (2000), “Gilgamesh ruled sometime between 2800 and 2500 BC“. The people of Uruk prayed to the gods to help them with their suffers, so the gods sent Enkidu, a strong wild man who fights Gilgamesh but Enkidu gets defeated. Afterword Enkidu became the closest friend of Gilgamesh. Together they defeated Humbaba he cedar forest’s guardian, and they defeated the bull of heaven which was sent by the goddess Ishtar to kill Gilgamesh
