All changes saved 1. In the end of Tablet I of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the city of Uruk is besieged by an evil enemy. What technique is used when the text
describes Uruk as "the strong-walled"?
And as the cattle were frightened, so were the people.
Like the doves, the maidens sigh and mourn.
The gods of Uruk, the strong-walled,
Assume the shape of flies and buzz about the streets.
The protecting deities of Uruk, the strong-walled,
take on the shape of mice and hurry into their holes.
Three years the enemy besieged the city of Uruk;
the city's gates were barred, the bolts were shot.
And even Ishtar, the goddess, could not make head against the enemy.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by William Muss Arnolt, 1901
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