This work opens with a king asserting the "lord's right" and his people praying for freedom from oppression and the hard labor of having to build a wall.
This work opens with a king asserting the "lord's right" and his people praying for freedom from oppression and the hard labor of having to build a wall. The protagonist of this work is the son of the goddess Ninsun, and visits Utnapishtim, who is with his wife the only survivor of a great (*) Flood. The Bull of Heaven is sent to kill one character in this work after he spurns the advances of Ishtar. After the title character's friend the wild-man Enkidu dies in this epic, that character engages on a journey to find the secret of immortality. For 10 points, name this Sumerian epic about a King of Uruk.
This work opens with a king asserting the "lord's right" and his people praying for freedom from oppression and the hard labor of having to build a wall.
the Epic of Gilgamesh