A sweeping review of The Epic of Gilgamesh: the oldest surviving epic, the civilisation that preserved it, and its strange journey from broken clay tablets back into human memory. Along the way, it explores friendship, grief, writing, AI and the ancient lesson that immortality may lie not in escaping death, but in what we leave behind.
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00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:31 - Introduction: He Who Saw the Deep
00:04:06 - Prologue: Uruk
00:10:11 - Tablets 1 to 2: Gilgamesh and Enkidu
00:19:32 - Interlude: Versions
00:28:36 - Tablet 3 to 6: Gilgamesh’s adventures with Enkidu
00:36:43 - Tablets 7 and 8: The death of Enkidu
00:38:41 - Interlude: Writing
00:46:31 - Tablets 9 to 10: Gilgamesh at the edge of the world
01:04:39 - Tablet 11: Immortality denied
01:12:45 - Conclusion: We who shall see the Deep
