is the “Epic of gilgamesh” an epopee?
As the Gilgamesh’s poem existed in its own world, as well in ours, this paper discusses the pertinence of applying to him the epic label. From the modern pointo of view, this gender classification depends on the approach to the archaic Greek epic, and responds to the need to situate the text in a co...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repositorio: | ArtCultura (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/50156 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/artcultura/article/view/50156 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | poema de gilgá-mesh épica grega autobiografia em terceira pessoa Gilgamesh epic Greek epic third-person autobiography |
| Sumario: | As the Gilgamesh’s poem existed in its own world, as well in ours, this paper discusses the pertinence of applying to him the epic label. From the modern pointo of view, this gender classification depends on the approach to the archaic Greek epic, and responds to the need to situate the text in a constellation of known genres, guiding its reception. From the ancient Babylonian perspective, the epic label seems inadequate, and I propose to understand the poem as the literary counterpart of a narû, of what is called “third-person autobiography”. |
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