Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh - ACX Book Review

A sweeping review of The Epic of Gilgamesh: the oldest surviving epic, the civilisation that preserved it, and its strange journey from broken clay tablets back into human memory. Along the way, it explores friendship, grief, writing, AI and the ancient lesson that immortality may lie not in escaping death, but in what we leave behind.This has been an Askwho Casts audio conversion. If you would like your own private feed of audio conversions of any blog posts you would like to listen to, You can sign up For Askwho Casts Pro at https://app.askwhocasts.com/, Where you can give any post the multi-voiced podcast treatment, into your own podcast feed. Thanks for listening.* 00:00:00 - Introduction* 00:00:31 - Introduction: He Who Saw the Deep* 00:04:06 - Prologue: Uruk* 00:10:11 - Tablets 1 to 2: Gilgamesh and Enkidu* 00:19:32 - Interlude: Versions* 00:28:36 - Tablet 3 to 6: Gilgamesh’s adventures with Enkidu* 00:36:43 - Tablets 7 and 8: The death of Enkidu* 00:38:41 - Interlude: Writing* 00:46:31 - Tablets 9 to 10: Gilgamesh at the edge of the world* 01:04:39 - Tablet 11: Immortality denied* 01:12:45 - Conclusion: We who shall see the Deephttps://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/your-book-review-the-epic-of-gilgamesh?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe