The Epic of GilgameshThe definitive translation of the world's oldest known epic, now revised in a second edition (2020) and updated with newly discovered material. A Penguin Classic Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the worlds oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgameshs adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of