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Gilgamesh
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    Occasionally humani would fight on one side, and their exploits were recalled in great legends like those of Gilgamesh and Cuchulain, Atlas and Hippolytus, Beowulf and Ilya of Murom.†  (source)
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    The cruel king Gilgamesh is jealous of his power over people and animals and wants to kill him.†  (source)
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    The Epic of Gilgamesh.†  (source)
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    Gilgamesh, why dost thou run about this way?†  (source)
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    When they had come down from the mountain Gilgamesh seized the axe in his hand: he felled the cedar.†  (source)
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    Perhaps the most striking Eastern literary antecedent to The Iliad is the story of Gilgamesh, which derives from Sumerian legends that reach back to the third millennium.†  (source)
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    He focuses on an image of walls—the walls of the city Gilgamesh has built, Uruk.†  (source)
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    It seated fifty only, but we'd managed to procure a print of the Lumière triplets' latest epic, Gilgamesh.†  (source)
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    Gilgamesh, on landing, had to listen to the patriarch's long recitation of the story of the deluge.†  (source)
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    GILGAMESH KING IN URUK I WILL proclaim to the world the deeds of Gilgamesh.†  (source)
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    By the time The Iliad was written down, Gilgamesh had been the most popular heroic saga throughout the Near East for a thousand years, being translated and transmitted on baked clay tablets through the lands of Asia Minor and all the way to the Mediterranean.†  (source)
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    The twelfth book tells of Gilgamesh point-lessly ruling the pointless dead.†  (source)
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    Gilgamesh.†  (source)
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