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"The Epic of Gilgamesh, the oldest written literary text in Near Eastern/Western cultural history, predating the Hebrew Bible, was communicated orally from circa 2200 BC [...]��The epic relates the story of King Gilgamesh, partly divine, partly human, who may have existed historically circa 2800 BC [...]��Having first encountered��The Epic of Gilgamesh��in my early teens, I have been thinking about a musical interpretation for over fifty years [...]" - Robert Saxton