I first read this in grad school but gave it another go the past few weeks, reading a page or two during breakfast. Another of my long term reads although this is fairly short. One of the oldest recorded stories written by humans but not discovered and translated until the mid to late 19th century. Estimates range that various versions of the story were recorded somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia. It blew my mind back in college days when I discovered the epic had an account of a great flood that seems to pre-date when the Biblical version was written.
