It is 3,200 years ago. Writer Sîn-Leqi-Unnini incorporates his fears in an epic story about Gilgamesh. Will that impress the new Babylonian king?
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This literature was used for this episode, among other things:
Karen Sonik. ‘Characterization and Identity in Mesopotamian Literature: The Gilgamesh Epic, Enuma Elish, and Other Sumerian and Akkadian Narratives’ in Dahlia Shehata EA (EDS) Contemporary Approaches to Mesopotamian Literature. How to tell a story, Brill 2024.
Sophus Helle. ‘Gilgamesh Returns’ in Articulations, in June 2024.
Amanda H. Podany. ‘Weavers, Scribes, and Kings a New History of the Ancient Near East’, Oxford University Press 2022.
Sophus Helle. ‘Gilgamesh: a new translation of the ancient epic ‘, Yale University Press 2021
Andrew George. ‘The Epic of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian ‘, Penguin 2020 (second edition).
Herman van Stiphout. ‘The epic of Gilgames’, Sun 2011 (third edition).
Gwendolyn Leick (Ed). ‘The Babylonian World’, Routledge 2007
Benjamin R. Foster. ‘Before the musses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature’, CDL Press 2005 (third edition).
See also ‘The epic of Gilgamesh: how a hero becomes human’ in NRC on July 6, 2019.
- Text and presentation:
- Hendrik Spiering
- Editorial and direction:
- Mirjam van Zuidam
- Music, assembly and mixage:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Image:
- Jeen Betting
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier