The King Who Watched a Snake Steal His Only Chance to Live Forever

The Epic of Gilgamesh, often called the oldest epic in the world, start to finish in about 25 minutes: a king nobody could stop, a wild man made by the gods, the monster of the Cedar Forest, a goddess he said no to, the Bull of Heaven, the death of his best friend, a walk through a mountain in total darkness, the Waters of Death, the one man who survived the great flood, and a snake. Chapters 0:00 This is Gilgamesh 1:04 The king nobody could stop 2:28 The wild man 4:33 The fight at the door 6:02 The Cedar Forest 8:13 The goddess who was told no 10:30 The vote 11:55 The lion without her cubs 12:53 The road of the Sun 14:09 The tavern at the end of the world 16:14 The man who survived the flood 19:08 The test 20:13 The plant and the snake 21:40 The walls 22:47 What was real 24:34 The end Sources R. Campbell Thompson, The Epic of Gilgamish (1928), Standard Babylonian version. Morris Jastrow and Albert T. Clay, An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic (1920), Yale tablet and Siduri's advice. Story order follows the best-known (Standard Babylonian) version; disputed numbers are left out or hedged. #Gilgamesh #Mythology #AncientMesopotamia