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Heroes of Babylonia
April 18, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Epic of Gilgamish," by Stephen Langdon. The Gilgamish Epic is the most noteworthy literary production of ancient Babylonia. It is taken up chiefly with the exploits of a hero of superhuman strength, to whom as a favorite figure a series of tales-some mythical, some legendary with a slight historical background were attached. In its final form the Epic comprised twelve tablets of several hundred lines each, but out of the total number of lines up to the present only about one-half have been recovered, chiefly in the form of fragments from the great "clay" library collected by the Assyrian King Ashurbanapal.

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EPIC of Gilgamesh, The (Book); LANGDON, Stephen; EPIC literature; HERO (Greek mythology); MYTHOLOGY; ASSYRIANS
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