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Documentary
Grant L. Voth · 2007
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
World literature from Gilgamesh onward reveals recurring human struggles with mortality, friendship, desire, and the search for meaning across every civilization.
mortality
frightened by death, he lays aside his regalia and goes out searching for a more literal immortality than a name that will live after him
GCWL-002education-and-formation
Enkidu is civilized by a prostitute who has sex with him, introduces him to shepherds—who teach him to eat human food, wear clothing, and groom himself
GCWL-001self-and-identity
the first instance in literature of the kind of male friendship that we will later encounter between Achilles and Patroclus
GCWL-0012 published passages · documentary · lived experience
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