This work inspired the name of the sinister manager of the Port Ruppert Mundys in Philip Roth'sThe Great American Novel.
This work inspired the name of the sinister manager of the Port Ruppert Mundys in Philip Roth'sThe Great American Novel. The main character of this work uses a favorable dream granted by themoon to kill a pride of lions and wear their skin and fails a test involving staying awake for sevendays and seven nights. In its latter half, a serpent steals a plant that the main character obtainedfrom the (*) bottom of the sea. Its protagonist also uses thirteen winds to bind the ogre who guards theCedar Forest and attempts to learn the secret of immortality from Utnapishtim to absolve his grief about theloss of a wild man who he'd beaten in a wrestling match. For 10 points, name this work about the bestfriend of Enkidu, an Mesopotamian epic poem.
This work inspired the name of the sinister manager of the Port Ruppert Mundys in Philip Roth'sThe Great American Novel.
The Epic of Gilgamesh [or Shutur Eli Sharri; or Sha Naqba Imuru; or Surpassing All Other Kings; or He Who Saw the Deep]