SOURCE: Ray, Benjamin Caleb. “The Gilgamesh Epic: Myth and Meaning.” In Myth and Method, edited by Laurie L. Patton and Wendy Doniger, pp. 300-21. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996.
In the following essay, Ray discusses what the Epic of Gilgamesh conveys about the meaning of life and death.
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