... and un-heroic end in a perspective, which many commentators seem to overlook. Gilgamesh's overbearing strength and power terrorize the people and the gods feel the need to give Uruk a break from the king, so they design a foil for him, Enkidu the man of the wild. Enkidu undergoes a process of civilizing when he sleeps with the woman Shamhat, and is then disturbed by Gilgamesh's right at weddings to be ... death will not be like that of a warrior "who falls in the midst of combatand makes his name" (Gilgamesh 7.264-6). These are the last words of Enkidu, the tablet ends here. Before movi...

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