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    The document provides an overview of the Epic of Gilgamesh, including its significance, themes of heroism and dealing with limitations, and excerpts from the story about Gilgamesh's journey to understand his own mortality and search for eternal life after the death of his friend Enkidu. It explores Gilgamesh's heroic battles, his rejection of the goddess Ishtar, the flood story of Utnapishtim, and Gilgamesh's eventual acceptance of his human limitations.

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    The document provides an overview of the Epic of Gilgamesh, including its significance, themes of heroism and dealing with limitations, and excerpts from the story about Gilgamesh's journey to understand his own mortality and search for eternal life after the death of his friend Enkidu. It explores Gilgamesh's heroic battles, his rejection of the goddess Ishtar, the flood story of Utnapishtim, and Gilgamesh's eventual acceptance of his human limitations.

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    Chapter 15—Epic of Gilgamesh

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    Introduction
     .Significance
     Themes: Universal and Particular
     Struggles of the Hero and the Structure of the Epic
     Heroism as a way of Dealing with Limitations\
     Gilgamesh and the Heroes Journey
     The Genre of the Story of Gilgamesh

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     Coming of Enkidu

     The Forest Journey

     Ishtar and Gilgamesh

     Death of Enkidu


     Search for Everlasting Life


     Flood Story of Utnapishtim


     The Return



























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