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The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near EastProceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16‒20, 2018
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The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, pp. 477-492, 2023/04/12
Proceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16‒20, 2018
This paper analyses a previously understudied parallel between the final encounters of Gilgamesh and Uta-napishti in the Epic of Gilgamesh and Achilles and Priam in the Iliad. I argue that Homer purposefully reverses thematic elements found in Gilg. in his reworking of the passage. Furthermore, I contextualize this reversal against Assyrian perceptions of Greeks as disordered barbarians.