Epic Verse
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What a newly-found fragment of an ancient Babylonian poem tells us about being human
‘The Epic of Gilgamesh’ is provocatively called an ‘ancient sex saga’ but the poem reveals a lot about an ancient understanding of humanity.
Sophus Helle, Aeon
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Glimpses from the rare ‘Menak Amir Hamza’, the Javanese version of the epic on the Prophet’s uncle
This is the Indonesian version of the widely known ‘Hamzanama’.
Annabel Gallop
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The Mahabharata: How an oral narrative of the bards became a text of the Brahmins
The epic was taken over by Brahmins who explained away abhorrent details like polyandry and parricide through imaginative additions.
Ruchika Sharma
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