Gilgamesh
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Gilgamesh is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 11, 2023 and September 19, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Hammurabi and Gilgamesh get more play relative to Solon and Achilles”; “That title must go to Hercules, or Gilgamesh, or someone completely forgotten”. It most often appears alongside Babylon, Egypt, 15th century Sicilian manuscript.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 11, 2023
- Last seen: September 19, 2023
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Related Pages
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- Babylon (2 shared issues)
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- Egypt (2 shared issues)
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- 15th century Sicilian manuscript (1 shared issues)
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- Achilles (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Adam Smith (1 shared issues)
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- Africa (1 shared issues)
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- Agrimardio (1 shared issues)
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- Aigeis (1 shared issues)
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- Alans (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander (1 shared issues)
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- Alexander Romance (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
A big silent intellectual change of the past quarter century is the broadening of our self-concept. Educated Westerners are starting to expect each other to know Chinese and Islamic history, which are still ongoing, and perhaps something about pre-Columbian America whose stories were traumatically ended by the conquest of the New World. The earlier past is moving into the light, too. Ancient states like Babylon and Egypt are gradually coming alive: Hammurabi and Gilgamesh get more play relative to Solon and Achilles. And before that, the real prehistory of the first cities, the Neolithic, the growth of agriculture, the end of the Ice Age at 10,000 BC, modern humans around 100,000 BC, the first humans at 1mya (million years ago)… these dates are gradually getting fixed in the mind as turning points in the story of us.
Inline links: story of us
Alexander the Great wasn’t the first superhero. That title must go to Hercules, or Gilgamesh, or someone completely forgotten. But he might have been the first superhero to get the full treatment, complete with his own extended universe.