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Why are you so downcast? (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
11 Language, communication, libraries and education



 		Keywords
friends
weeping
Period
Greek Archaic Age 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek poets

Text
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.46ff.:
(Gilgameš to Siduri:) How should my cheeks not be wasted, my face downcast, my heart wretched, my aspect worn, and grief in my insides? … My friend whom I love greatly, who underwent every hardship with me, Enkidu, whom I love greatly, who underwent every hardship with me - the fate of mortals has overtaken him.

Homer, Odyssey 10.383-385:
(Odysseus to Circe:) Oh, Circe, why, what reasonable man would bring himself to taste food or drink until he had got his comrades freed and could see them before his eyes?

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.46ff.
Homer, Odyssey 10.383-385

Bibliography

West 1997, 409West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus


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