Uruk

What is the relation between Enkidu and Gilgamesh? A relationship of mutual affection between two people which includes honesty, trustworthiness, loyalty, congeniality, integrity, and caring is friendship, which is a necessity relation for all human beings as social creatures. (Edmonds, 2010). The epic of Gilgamesh is the story of a powerful, half human half god, king and his friend, brother, and companion Enkidu. According to my perspective, one the fundamental theme of this epic is friendship,…

automatically when Enkidu dies. This is the turning point of the story which makes Gilgamesh depressed and transforms him into a different person similar to what happens to most people today. When it comes to religious beliefs, in the poem, the people of Uruk turned to their gods and prayed to them for help in times of need and hardship as mind religious people do today. When Enkidu died, Gilgamesh had a very difficult time dealing with the loss of his dear friend. He went through…

Looking deeper in the epic one can see different stages of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey. And finally, the epic has many different universal concepts that relate to our society today. To begin, the epic begins with the introduction of the city of Uruk and Gilgamesh its king. Gilgamesh is two thirds god, and one third man. Gilgamesh is credited with the creation of great structures including ziggurats, and high walls. Atop the grand structures Gilgamesh also laid out the orchards and…

The Sumerians developed one of the earliest civilizations on earth from 3500 to 1750BC. Their existence and civilization was not even discovered until the middle of 1800AD. Because the ancient Greeks and Egyptians wrote about the Babylonians most people did not realize that the Sumerians preceded the Babylonians. Furthermore, it was the Sumerians who developed writing, religious and agricultural systems which later the Babylonians continued. During the early 1800's it was the British, German…

The Importance of Friendship The epic of Gilgamesh fulfills the requirements of an epic by being consistently relevant to a human society and has specific themes of immortality, friendship, and grief. Gilgamesh was a tyrant king of Uruk, who took whatever appealed to him, oppressed the people, made every young man into a soldier and took the virginities of noble men’s wives. The beginning of the epic painted Gilgamesh as more of a god-like being and also an oppressor that no one could…

Gilgamesh was so distraught of Enkidu’s death that he ripped out his perfectly groomed hair and circles Enkidu’s body while pacing restlessly. After Gilgamesh pulls him self-together, he commands the craftsmen of Uruk to honor Enkidu by building a statue of Enkidu so the people of Uruk could also celebrate his fame. However, even though Gilgamesh knew Enkidu’s name would live on forever, that wasn’t enough for Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh now was afraid of death. His fear led him to seek out Utnapishtim…

The epic of Gilgamesh, a story written on multiple clay tablets by the ancient Mesopotamian. The story tells of the king of Uruk named Gilgamesh and can be broken into two parts. Part one involving Gilgamesh and Enkidu a wild man created by the gods the creatures they fought and finally Enkidu death which start the second part of the epic. The second part involves Gilgamesh sad about the death of Enkidu going on a journey to understand the secret of eternal life. It is through reading and…

Around 3600 BCE the city of Uruk developed in the river valleys of Mesopotamia. Uruk attracted migrations of bordering neighbors and made possible, for the first time in history, the growing of surplus food, populations rapidly increased and as collective management became more advanced, a process of urbanization evolved and Sumerian civilization took root (Mark). Prior to Uruk, our universe had seen nothing like this unification. Years later, cities…

show up in almost every story ever told. In the “Epic of Gilgamesh”, Gilgamesh had a serious flaw, pride. He was the King of Uruk, and he knew it. He acted like a prideful, rude king who could care less about what other people…

One of the first river valley civilizations found itself nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent in now modern day Iraq, and Syria the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived for thousands of years. Despite it being such a great civilization researchers have only recently translating cuneiform when Napoleon found the Rosetta Stone on his conquests. Again war in Iraq and conquest have assisted the discovery of many clay tablets in Iraq. These clay tablets…