Editing Epic of Gilgamesh (section)

=== Influence on Homer ===
Numerous scholars have drawn attention to various themes, episodes, and verses, indicating that the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'' had a substantial influence on both of the [[epic poems]] ascribed to [[Homer]]. These influences are detailed by [[Martin Litchfield West]] in ''The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=West |first=Martin Litchfield |title=The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth |date=2003 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-815221-7 |location=Oxford |pages=334–402 |oclc=441880596 |orig-year=1997}}</ref> According to Tzvi Abusch of Brandeis University, the poem "combines the power and tragedy of the ''[[Iliad]]'' with the wanderings and marvels of the ''[[Odyssey]]''. It is a work of adventure, but is no less a meditation on some fundamental issues of human existence."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Abusch |first=Tzvi |date=Dec 2001 |title=The Development and Meaning of the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Interpretive Essay |journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society |volume=121 |issue=4 |pages=614–22 |doi=10.2307/606502 |jstor=606502}}</ref> Martin West, in "The East face of Helicon", speculates that the memory of Gilgamesh would have reached the Greeks through a lost poem about Heracles.{{Sfn|Lins Brandão|2019|p=22}}