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Notes to Chapter 29. The nature of the civiliation: the First Gilgamesh

Giorgio Buccellati – August 2023

29.1 Factuality and idealization
29.2 The dates
29.3 Voice
      29.3.1 Compositional structure
      29.3.2 The backstory
      29.3.3 The first endeavour: Enkidu discovers the civilization (Tablet P)
      29.3.4 Interlude: the savage side of Gilgamesh (Tablet Y)
      29.3.5 The second endeavour: the adventure as conquest (Tablets G and N)
      29.3.6 The last endeavour: the adventure as a quest (Tablet S)
29.4 Perception
      29.4.1 Memory and experience
      29.4.2 The experience of the civilization
      29.4.3 The heroic dimension and the grographical scene
      29.4.4 Between epics and wisdom


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29.2 The dates

  1. The Urkesh plaque has been published in Kelly Buccellati 2006 Gilgamesh.

    – [ Giorgio Buccellati, January 2022]