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How much of epics are part of cultrual tropes and recycled stories and myths from that culture? The Epic of Gilgamesh for example has nearly the same story as a Sargon myth and was pretty clearly recycled to be apart of Gilgamesh rather than Sargon of Akkad, So how much of writings of other cultures took the same path? For the Greeks we can't compare older texts than the Illiad and Odyssey for the same story tropes like the Sumerians and Akkadians.

>>15920606>>15921045

>THE destiny was fulfilled which the father of the gods, Enlil of the mountain, had decreed for Gilgamesh: ‘In
nether-earth the darkness will show him a light: of mankind, all that are known, none will leave a monument for
generations to come to compare with his. The heroes, the wise men, like the new moon have their waxing and
waning. Men will say, "Who has ever ruled with might and with power like him?" As in the dark month, the month
of shadows, so without him there is no light. O Gilgamesh, this was the meaning of your dream. You were given
the kingship, such was your destiny, everlasting life was not your destiny. Because of this do not be sad at heart, do
not be grieved or oppressed; he has given you power to bind and to loose, to be the darkness and the light of
mankind. He has given unexampled supremacy over the people, victory in battle from which no fugitive returns, in
forays and assaults from which there is no going back. But do not abuse this power, deal justly with your servants in
the palace, deal justly before the face of the Sun.'

Governements should just be based off this passage from the Epic of Gilgamesh

>>15921037
Btfo’d