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>tfw Gilgamesh achieved his eternal life through his epic
Are there any other good epics that take place before Christ?

>> No.7323964

The Iliad
The Odyssey

>> No.7324002

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana

>> No.7325788

>>7323949

>Gilgamesh achieved his eternal life through his epic

Except he didn't. For him eternal life was being safe from the underworld, not some shitty recognition, shitty to say the least since he's nowhere near as well-known as Achilles.

>> No.7325812

>>7323949
Shahnemah

>> No.7325835

>>7325812
>Shahnemah
Shahnameh*

>> No.7325846

>>7325835
Oh sorry. The ه gets transliterated as an "e" usually for farsi, right.

>> No.7325871

>>7325812
That definitely ain't BC, though.

These
>>7323949
>>7323964
>>7324002
and a handful of other Greek and Roman ones are the only that I know are BC. Are there any others?

>> No.7325882
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7325882

You will never have 3 days and 3 nights of non-stop wild sex with Shamhat. Why live?

>> No.7325884

>>7323949
The Poetic Edda

>> No.7325886

>>7325871
I thought you meant that the accounts regaled within the epic should take place before Christ because Firdawsi's epic begins BC.

>> No.7325889

>>7323949
The Torah

>> No.7325892

>>7325788
Who?