Give an account of the recovery of The Epic of Gilgamesh and discuss the problems presented by the fragmentary and alien nature of the sources? The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written work to have survived into the modern era. ... Secondly, there are 200+ tablets are from the first millennia and are part of a stable edition of the epic, which is called, the "Standard Babylonian epic of Gilgamesh" which all have the same plot, of the coming of Enkidu, the expedition against Humbaba, the going to the cedar forest, the seduction Enkidu by the Goddess Ishtar, the death and funera...

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