Tablet 8 Gilgamesh is torn apart by the death ofhis friend, and utters a long lament, ordering all of creation to never fallsilent in mourning his dead friend. Most of this tablet is missing, but thesecond half seems to be a description of the monument he builds for Enkidu.
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Epic of Gilgamesh (summary)
Historical FictionGilgamesh was an historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, on the River Euphrates in modern Iraq; he lived about 2700 B.C. Although historians (and your textbook) tend to emphasize Hammurabi and his code of law, the civilizations of the Tigris-Euphrates...
