Gilgamesh
Americannoun
noun
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He further compared himself to death-defiers of yore like Gilgamesh, Asclepius, and Jesus, while proffering a scientific assessment of why “being mean is bad for your health.”
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
Other versions of this list also mention the legendary King Gilgamesh, known from the Epic of Gilgamesh.
From Science Daily ● May 5, 2026
Gilgamesh returns to his kingdom of Uruk not as a conqueror but as a witness: to loss, to limitation, to the fragile beauty of what cannot last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
From a forthcoming choral libretto premiering in Finland to a graphic novel retelling of the "Epic of Gilgamesh," Macfarlane’s creative orbit keeps expanding.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
In the Epic of Gilgamesh, the narrator states that Gilgamesh was two-thirds god and one-third man.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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