/lit/ - Literature

>>23106059
???
Are you fucking retarded?

Those who have read the epic of gilgamesh, which translation would you recommend?

Is there a book that summarizes the history of literature? All the way from Mesopotamia to the United States?

The earliest civilisations also had the earliest written literature, perhaps unsurprisingly. However, I've noticed that other civilisations, over time, developed theories of aesthetics, literary merit, and their canon of classics. Mesopotamia seems to be an exception to this, and I wonder why. You might say it's due to their conservative religiosity, but a counterpoint is India. There is certainly not a lack of religious texts either, and scribes in training practiced writing already existing literary texts. More broadly speaking, why did literature not develop as an autonomous institution there, unlike in other places? Wisdom literature was an important genre in the ancient Near East, and their disputations are a sort of precursor to philosophical dialogue, yet they never developed philosophy, unlike Greece which had a much shorter history of writing and many less (literate) people.

When are we gonna get the sequel to picrel?

What's a good English translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh? Somewhere between accuracy and readability, I suppose, but not too modernised.

Zoomer here. What can I read before the 15th century that will be enjoyable and easy to read?

>over 4,000 year-old
>still the most epic hero in all known literature
what happened? why can't nobody top him?

Why is the epic of Gilgamesh so important? I know its one of the oldest books but how did it really influence literature?

What translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh should I read?

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Why does it end by repeating the words from the first tablet?

how do we feel about starting with gilgamesh?

What is the best translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh?

I've tried out a maybe new form of poetic structure. It has three stanzas; two tercets and a quatrain. The rhyme structure in the tercets is [A-AB-B]. AB means that two halves of the rhyme join. For instance, if A is "betrayed" and B is "hen" then AB can be a word like "maiden". The A and B lines are monosyllabic, whilst the AB line is at least two syllables, with the start and end of the word appropiately matching.
The syllabic structure is [11-12-10] for each line respectively.
The quatrain is similar, with a rhyme structure of [A-AB-BC-C] and syllables [11-12-10-11]
If you'd like, please try make something this way and tell me what you think. I am not sure if it's any good, since it seems lopsided.

>>13248676
Kek

>>10737564

so was enkidu and gilgamesh homosexual for each other? does this make the first ever written story lgbtq friendly?

> (about 36 lines missing)

What did he mean by this?

The Epic of Gilgamesh. You can get it from the British Museum.

>>5330745
> using bastardized translation of the bible over the original

You read the original Noah story in cuneiform?