<p>Gilgamesh, a king, at Uruk. It&#8217;s not just a <em>Star Trek</em> meme. Gregory Fried talks ritual sex, heavenly bulls, and sneaky snakes in the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em>.</p>
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     <h4><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh" class="link" target="_blank">Wikipedia article on the Epic of Gilgamesh</a></h4>
     
    
     <h4><a href="https://gutenberg.org/files/11000/11000-h/11000-h.htm" class="link" target="_blank">Line-by-line literal translation of Gilgamesh, ed. Morris Jastrow</a></h4>
     
    
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131: Beowulf

John McCoy and a guest host read books you might have been assigned in high school, or college, or other stuff you might have read when you were a kid. The theming is loose!