Episode 2: Before the Flood (The Enuma Elish and Atrahasis)

The Enuma Elish and the Atrahasis, in circulation 3,800 years ago, were Mesopotamia's creation and flood epics, making them 1,000 years older than Genesis. Benjamin Foster's Before the Muses (1,000-page anthology of Akkadian Literature) Stephanie Dalley's Myths from Mesopotamia (Shorter collection that includes the Epic of Gilgamesh) Episode 2 Quiz https://literatureandhistory.com/quiz-002/ Episode 2 Transcription: https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-002-before-the-flood Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxED2Xa3R3Y Bonus Content: https://literatureandhistory.com/bonus-content Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/literatureandhistory YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@literatureandhistorypodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/literatureandhistorypodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/literatureandhistory TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lahpodcast Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lahpodcast.bsky.social X https://x.com/lahpodcast