On Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

Taking a break from Carl Jung (having got my phone plug cleaned out I've been listening to a lot of youTubes more intelligent offerings) and I found this. 

Which - again - resonated with me:

The above is a fine reading. And this - I've come to notice, with all my delving into odd books, listening to - that the narrator makes the difference. There are no end to incompetent narrators, implausible, or with voices that do not carry the rhythm or the subject. This one does fine.

You can read a version of it here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53b59f96e4b089bf6ae90076/t/5dc19b0aa9a2b60e2f72e207/1572969227533/TGC+Gilgamesh.pdf

Although there are abundant copies around, much depends on the translation.

And this - an excellent lecture with various experts offering context and interpretation to the poem: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Lecture by Andrew George

 

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