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Nobody has crossed the sea (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Gilgameš (search for life) 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.01 Myths 04.01.07 Gilgameš (search for life) Literary motifs and topoi 11 Language, communication, libraries and education 11.01 Imperial languages 11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features 11.01.05.04 Literary motifs and topoi	Keywords seas travelling
Period Neo-Assyrian Empire	Channel No channel specified

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.2.20-22:
(Siduri to Gilgameš:) There has not, Gilgameš, ever been a ferry, and no one who has come since the beginning of time has crossed the sea.’

Homer, Odyssey 10.500-502:
(Odysseus to Circe:) Oh, Circe, why, who will show me the way on that journey? No one has ever reached Hades by ship.

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.2.20-22
Homer, Odyssey 10.500-502

Bibliography

West 1997, 410

West, 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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