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Despite being nearly four thousand years old, the Epic of Gilgamesh remains relevant beyond it being the oldest recorded story. The epic continues to have relevant themes and messages that are still seen today in modern works. It covers grief, humbleness, and a willingness to accept death rather than search fruitlessly for immortality. When looking at the overview of the epic, it is interesting to see the overlap and similarities the story has with the Iliad, another epic that was fifteen hundred years later by Homer. The Epic of Gilgamesh continues to remain relevant and seen in modern stories.

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Reading the article, I have learned in great detail about what the Epic of Gilgamesh is about and what it stands for. I have learned that Gilgamesh is a king with a miserable kingdom because of what he has done. Gilgamesh is soon confronted with a soon-to-be best friend named Enkidu, who teaches him the importance of friendship and companionship. This theme still stands strong in the modern age and continues to touch hearts because friendship is still important to this day, almost a millennia later. Almost everything the Epic of Gilgamesh stands for is still very relevant today, which is fascinating to know because it shows how people have always been the same, no matter the era.

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While reading this story, I learned about humility and acceptance. Although the story is about accepting mortality, I think its general theme is acceptance in general along with gratefulness. Gilgamesh had almost everything someone could one, a lack of rivalry, a title, strength, friendship, etc. Although Gilgamesh could have all of these things, he wanted to have them forevermore. He attempts to gain immortality and regain youth which are things that simply aren't meant to be given. Instead of appreciating his riches and blessings, he focuses on unreachable things.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an incredibly old tale or poem that tackles mostly every problem that anyone has faced ever. Despite being the oldest recorded story in history, it is not mentioned in other stories like the Hebrew bible or in Greek mythology, however many of the events that occur in the Epic of Gilgamesh are incredibly similar to famous events in the bible. Throughout this epic, we follow Gilgamesh and his attempt to defeat death. However, Gilgamesh soon realizes that what he deserves is inevitably coming.

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One thing I learned from the Epic of Gilgamesh is that strength, power, aren't everything. Gilgamesh also learns this lesson. Despite being 2/3 God and having a kingdom and strength Gilgamesh isn't able to save his one true friend. This is a key lesson in life. Strength and power aren't everything and cannot solve every problem. I also learned that in the God's in ancient stories did not typically favor humans.Even though Gilgamesh was mostly God, he was still punished for rejecting Ishtar's advances and killing her beast.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh is a centuries old poem that still has gaps but it's incredible that scholars were able to pick it apart and piece it together at the same time. It's amazing that literature dates back to thousands of years ago and relates to mythology with great detail and relevance to modern issues. It shows that the human experience is vastly similar even from centuries ago, mortality is a fear that many people face, the fear of death and anxiety of when or how death will come. I think this poem is going to make death a beautiful thing and even help the readers cope with their own perspectives of death.

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While reading the Epic of Gilgamesh, I learned about how the struggles of mortality have been a lifelong dilemma. Grief is a universal concept and everyone has to deal with it in their own way. I learned about how Gilgamesh grieved and the ways that he confronted and ran from his own mortality after discovering that he could die. This came after his closest friend died suddenly because of the gods. This is a very old story of strength and weakness that has many similar parallels to how people feel about death today.

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From this article I learned that the Epic of Gilgamesh is a story of life’s challenges. The challenges in the epic aren’t time specific, it’s things that every human may go through in their lifetime. Gilgamesh struggles with accepting his fate of being ⅓ mortal and that he will die one day. Once he finally finds a friend, Enkidu, their time together is cut short when Enkidu is killed as consequence to his anger getting out of hand. After this Gilgamesh deals with grief and prolongs it, refusing to move on and accept that he will also die one day.

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Even though Gilgamesh was trying to gain mortality he learned the life lesson of acceptance. He learned to value what he had that others weren't capable of having as a human. The challenge of trying to gain immortality and youth made him value himself more because he realized that he is way more blessed than other.

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Now that McBarfFace has calmed down now, I'll give you my proper opinion of my reaction to this article:

Now even though I'm definitely not a fan of the actual text in the Epic of Gilgamesh itself, as I may or may not have typed earlier, it's not really about the text that makes this Epic so important. It's the type of story this is that connects to so many people. In this story, you see a main character that goes through struggle as he faces a challenge that all people have to face in their lives, e v e n t u a l   d e a t h . He battles through his own fears and he goes through many challenges to prevent himself from ever having to die, only in the end to realize that there's nothing that can prevent him from dying, and he'll just have to move on and accept it. It's a touching lesson because it's something that everyone goes through.  Everyone at some point will have to conquer some fear of theirs if they want to move on with their lives. And more than likely, it'll be for the better.

I'm not a fan for old literature because of their lack of restrain to add suggestive and crude material in their writing, but I'll just have to go through it if I want to move on with my life.

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After reading the article over The Epic of Gilgamesh, I learned that stories can be timeless. Even though this story is thousands of years old, it can still relate to us today. Power, wealth, and strength is not everything to life, a meaningful friendship is what showed Gilgamesh this. After the passing of Enkidu, he grieved. Gilgamesh had lost one of the only bonds he had, and with this he sook for answers to prevent his own passing. While consumed in his grief, he forgot to live. This can still be seen today after a loss, many are too consumed in their grief to fully live their lives.

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While reading this article, you can see the importance of the epic and Gilgamesh himself. The demigod was such an unstoppable force that the people had to try and tame him with a prostitute. It has a lesson and Gilgamesh took the challenge of trying to gain immortality. This helped him accept himself, and also the importance of friendship.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh which dates to around four thousand years old is about a king named Gilgamesh who is 2/3 god 1/3 human. He learns that power and strength are not everything. Even tho he could have everything he wanted he tried to gain immortality instead of appreciating what he had. He then lost his one true friend which then turns him into a better person. He learned from this lose humility and acceptance. He takes in that he will also die one day since he is also human

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Although the Epic of Gilgamesh is an old tale, the ancient literature still relates to the modern world. The literature uses grief, friendship, greed, stubbornness, and acceptance. Despite Gilgamesh being 2/3 god, he is however, 1/3 human which results him in being mortal. As a result he seeks to find immortality for the rest of his life, He then makes a friend named Enkidu that hears what he is doing and encourages him to give up his journey for immortality and accept death in the future. Enkidu passes which causes Gilgamesh to be consumed by his grief and start his journey for immortality, thus in he wastes all of his youth and rejects everything like his family and friends. This connects to the real world due to the fact when people are consumed by grief and greed, people tend to do what they want to despite the negative impacts it has on them or people around them. This shows that we as a society are still very similar to the society thousands of years ago.

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When first reading about Gilgamesh I thought it was just going to be an ancient story that would not interest me at all. The farther I was able to read though, I found myself sympathizing with Gilgamesh's story. He faces many obstacles throughout his life but what stood out to me from the start was his ego. Gilgamesh is a half God-half man who rules a city, he loses the closest person in his life over rejection, and his story ends back home alone admiring the walls of Uruk. While he has strong powers and has always been superior to mankind, life constantly sends him reminders he is like no other. While I obviously have not experienced anything similar to what Gilgamesh has endured, I can't imagine the battle he must have been facing with himself. He is able to realize that in life all that is needed is to be at peace with what is given to you, restricting and seeking more will never satisfy him because of his ego.

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The Epic of Gilgamesh tells a human story even with its wildly inhuman characters. It highlights the importance of connecting with others by displaying Gilgamesh and Enkidu's relationship. Gilgamesh is only truly happy when he is with his friend Enkidu and when he loses him, he realizes everything else he has accomplished doesn't matter. The story also covers the concept of mortality. We will all die one day and the story tells how Gilgamesh fights against this. On his journey for immortality he is told that it is pointless and to enjoy the life he has instead of wasting it running from death. Eventually he stops his journey and realizes this.

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As I read this 4,000 year old poem and how it mentioned that the messages sent by the epic, Gilgamesh, are still relevant today I began connecting my stories to his. Surprisingly it felt like the story was just changed into a different format but the feelings and stages were the same as mine. Realizing that I saw the consequences of mourning for too long, it consumed Gilgamesh and he set a journey to stop an inevitable death. Yet once he fails all possible opportunities for eternal life and youth he comes to a conclusion to live a happy life and to fill it with as much family and friends as possible.

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My greatest takeaway from this Epic is that albeit mortals and gods exhibit vast differences, they also display identical feelings, and emotions. This is presented in the Epic as we are introduced to the main character, King Gilgamesh and his partner in combat, Enkidu. Gilgamesh being described as part man, part god, often has the desire to satisfy his flesh as he takes advantage of the village women for his own selfish need.  Being called upon by Ishtar to be her husband, Gilgamesh declines thus upsetting Ishtar as she is referred to as "A woman scorned". Ishtar then seeks revenge as she asks her father to "send the violent Bull of Heaven to wreak destruction on Uruk (Gilgamesh's village.)" This destruction then leads to  Enkidu's sudden death at the discretion of the council of gods. This chain of events can be applied to several human like attributes such as greed, and promiscuous tendencies. Gilgamesh can be viewed as an overzealous, arrogant, God, whereas Enkidu can easily be identified as hot headed, loyal, and somewhat stubborn. All in all, along side the similar feelings and emotion tied to both gods and mortals, death is also another similar experience, making it an inevitable event at which will occur eventually.