SOURCE: Vulpe, Nicola. “Irony and the Unity of the Gilgamesh Epic.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 53, no. 4 (January-October 1994): 275-83.
In the following essay, Vulpe argues that the twelfth tablet story of Gilgamesh's descent into the netherworld is essential to the Epic of Gilgamesh.
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