SOURCE: Kovacs, Maureen Gallery. Introduction to The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs, pp. xvii-xxxiv. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.
In the following excerpt, Kovacs discusses different versions of the Gilgamesh story and why it had relatively little influence on Mesopotamian culture.
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