When will the war be over?
When can they put an end to the tragedy?
King Gilgamesh was a hero in ancient Meso-
potamian mythology and the protagonist of
the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem written
in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.
He was possibly a historical king of the Sumerian
city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified.
His rule probably would have taken place sometime
in the beginning of the Early Dynastic Period, c. 2900
– 2350 BC, though he became a major figure in
Sumerian legend during the Third Dynasty of Ur
(c. 2112 – c. 2004 BC).
Tales of Gilgamesh's legendary exploits are narrated
in five surviving Sumerian poems.
