I read the Epic of Gilgamesh. Im sure it was really great at the time. But I have to say, storytelling overall as an art form in various media formats has definitely gotten better with time.
I like the Enuma Elish better. It feels like it’s talking about… Kind of the genesis of society, of different… Tribes or kingdoms, their geneaology and how it all came to the conflict that birthed civilization.
I have my own theories that it is actually based in historical fact (though embellished, still true like the Iliad and the Trojan war), there are things in there that sound much too practical and pedestrian to be made up- because it’s not interesting enough for fiction.
I read the Epic of Gilgamesh. Im sure it was really great at the time. But I have to say, storytelling overall as an art form in various media formats has definitely gotten better with time.
Easy for you to complain about ancient texts lacking in the epic prose department when YOU DON’T HAVE TO CHISEL SHIT INTO A FUCKING STONE.
These tales were told through oral repetition and song for thousands of years before they were written down.
Even the Sumerians say so, in the texts, that what is being told happened a very long time ago even for them.
Bet lots got lost in translation there, between speech and cuneiform.
It’s a pretty good story tho ngl.
I like the Enuma Elish better. It feels like it’s talking about… Kind of the genesis of society, of different… Tribes or kingdoms, their geneaology and how it all came to the conflict that birthed civilization.
I have my own theories that it is actually based in historical fact (though embellished, still true like the Iliad and the Trojan war), there are things in there that sound much too practical and pedestrian to be made up- because it’s not interesting enough for fiction.