![]() It is alien, it is strange, an urban setting presented as if for the first time.Ĭan we visualize it precisely from the detail we are given, or does the problem we encountered with the ship and the heroes’ stature recur? Are the passages we read intended as descriptions in our sense, or do they carry meaning in a different way, less to the eye than to another faculty, agreed and It declined after 2000 BCE, but some insist (through a very doubtful etymology) that it gave its name, through Arabic, to the country we now know as Iraq. ![]() At the time of the poem, Old Babylonian Uruk had between 50,000 and 80,000 inhabitants and was probably one of the biggest cities in the world. The shepherds who tend their flocks three days away from Uruk, providing the city with food and wool, know their king and talk about him familiarly. Few barriers separate them, so that a trapper from the countryside can gain immediate audience with the king, and the king knows the temple harlots by name. Its citizens and their king live in close proximity to one another. ![]() Uruk, the Mesopotamian city near the fertile banks of the Euphrates, where the poem’s action begins and ends, is one of the earliest cities in the world. ![]() Gilgamesh is decidedly remote from our world and time. ![]()
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