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The 39 pages that link to Epic of Gilgamesh, each with the reason it gives.

• CuneiformBroader topic: Its surviving tablets show cuneiform used for literary composition.

• Epic poetryBroader topic: It is among the earliest surviving works commonly called an epic.

• Akkadian languageBroader topic: Its Akkadian versions are among the best-known literary works in the language.

• World literatureBroader topic: Its modern recovery and translation carried an ancient work into international literary histories.

• Ancient Near EastBroader topic: Its surviving versions preserve literary traditions rooted in ancient Mesopotamian cities.

• Library of AshurbanipalBroader topic: A tablet from Nineveh preserves the best-known version’s account of the flood.

• AshurbanipalBroader topic: Fragments from Nineveh preserve a major version of the epic, including its flood narrative.

• Ancient Near Eastern religionBroader topic: Its treatment of mortality and divine power illuminates Mesopotamian views of human limits.

• ImmortalityBroader topic: Gilgamesh’s failed quest makes mortality a central theme rather than a solved problem.

• QuestBroader topic: Gilgamesh's failed search makes mortality itself the quest's defining object.

• AssyriologyBroader topic: Its surviving versions reveal literary traditions, scribal practice, and changing religious ideas.

• LiteratureBroader topic: It is among the earliest surviving works of literature in written form.

• Flood mythBroader topic: Its flood episode is one of the oldest surviving written versions of the story.

• Mesopotamian mythologyBroader topic: It is the best-known extended narrative in the Mesopotamian mythic tradition.

• Ancient literatureBroader topic: Its cuneiform tablets preserve one of the oldest surviving literary narratives.

• History of literatureBroader topic: It is among the earliest surviving works of extended literature.

• History of poetryBroader topic: It is among the oldest surviving works commonly classified as poetry.

• Writing (written work)Broader topic: Its surviving tablets show how an influential literary work was recorded and transmitted.