['gilgәmeʃ]
吉尔伽美什(传说中的苏美尔国王)

[ noun ]
a legendary Sumerian king who was the hero of an epic collection of mythic stories
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Gilgamesh \Gilgamesh\, Gilgamish \Gilgamish\prop. n.
1. (Sumerian mythology) A legendary king of Sumeria and the
hero of famous Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
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2. The {Epic of Gilgamesh}, a long Babylonian epic written in
cuneiform in the Sumerian language on clay tablets. Early
versions of the written story date from 2000 B. C.; it is
probably the first written story still in existence. A
longer version was written in the Akkadian language, on 12
clay tablets found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library
of Ashurbanipal, king of Assyria from 669 to 633 B. C. The
story depicted the life and heroic deeds of the legendary
Gilgamesh, apparently derived from stories about a real
king of ancient Mesopotamia who lived around 2700 B. C.
The story includes a tale of a great flood, which has some
parallels to the biblical story of the flood survived by
Noah. The Nineveh tablets name the author of that version
of the story, a Shin-eqi-unninni.
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Note: The entire text may be found in:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990)
and
Gilgamesh
Translated by John Maier and John Gardner
(New York: Vintage Press, 1981)