It had a water aqueduct, palaces and a library with 20, 000 clay tablets, including accounts of a creation in Enuma Elish and a flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

* The Flood Tablet, relating part of the famous Epic of Gilgamesh

File: BM ; ANE-RM 55, Cuneiform Tablets Display. 1. JPG | Room 55-Cuneiform Collection, including the Epic of Gilgamesh

Tablet containing a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, or the Bhagavata Purana would obviously not contain this element ).

** Epic of Gilgamesh ( Mesopotamian mythology )

Flutes are also mentioned in a recently translated tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem whose development spanned the period of approximately 2100-600 BCE.

In The Epic of Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh was said to have destroyed a tree that was in a sacred grove dedicated to the goddess Ishtar / Inanna / Asherah.

Tablet from the Library of Ashurbanipal containing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh

Among the findings were the Enuma Elish, also known as the Epic of Creation, which depicts a traditional Babylonian view of creation, the Epic of Gilgamesh, a large selection of " omen texts " including Enuma Anu Enlil which " contained omens dealing with the moon, its visibility, eclipses, and conjunction with planets and fixed stars, the sun, its corona, spots, and eclipses, the weather, namely lightning, thunder, and clouds, and the planets and their visibility, appearance, and stations ", and astronomic / astrological texts, as well as standard lists used by scribes and scholars such as word lists, bilingual vocabularies, lists of signs and synonyms, and lists of medical diagnoses.

One of the most famous of these was the Epic of Gilgamesh, in twelve books, translated from the original Sumerian by a certain Sin-liqe-unninni, and arranged upon an astronomical principle.

The earliest written flood myth is found in the Mesopotamian Epic of Atrahasis and Epic of Gilgamesh texts.

Martin West has noted substantial parallels between the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey.

Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

The oldest surviving epic poem is the Epic of Gilgamesh, from the 3rd millennium BC in Sumer ( in Mesopotamia, now Iraq ), which was written in cuneiform script on clay tablets and, later, papyrus.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

* In the Epic of Gilgamesh, priestess Shamhat, a temple prostitute, tamed wild Enkidu after " six days and seven nights.

Some of the earliest references include the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible ( Ezekiel 47: 5, Acts 27: 42, Isaiah 25: 11 ), Beowulf, and other sagas.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is a similar quest for immortality.

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These early levels were sealed off with a sterile deposit that was interpreted by excavators of the 1920s as evidence for the Great Flood of the book of Genesis and Epic of Gilgamesh.

It was known to the composer of the Little Iliad, part of the Epic Cycle.

** six epics of the Epic Cycle: Cypria, Aethiopis, the Little Iliad, the Iliou persis (" Sack of Troy "), Nostoi (" Returns "), and Telegony.

The band left Epic Records after White Light, White Heat, White Trash ( 1996 ) and Ness formed Time Bomb Recordings, releasing Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past ( a collection of old recordings and singles that were done in the early ' 80s ), a re-issue of the long out of print Mommy's Little Monster, along with a re-issue of their second album Prison Bound, and Live at the Roxy ( 1998 ).

The Epic of America ( Little, Brown, and Co. 1931 )

Discovery was remastered as part of the Epic / Legacy remaster series in 2001 ; among the included bonus tracks was a cover of a Del Shannon classic, " Little Town Flirt ", which was started during sessions for the album but never finished until the year the album was reissued.

The Epic Cycle (, Epikos Kyklos ) was a collection of Ancient Greek epic poems that related the story of the Trojan War, which includes the Cypria, the Aethiopis, the so-called Little Iliad, the Iliupersis, the Nostoi, and the Telegony.

* Home Alive-The Art Of Self Defense-" It's Just A Little Bit Of Everything ( That's Brought Me Down To This )" ( Epic Records 1996 )

According to the Epic Cycle narrative of the Little Iliad, on the way to the ships, Odysseus plotted to kill Diomedes and claim the Palladium ( or perhaps the credit for gaining it ) for himself.

The Little Iliad is one of the better-attested epics in the Epic Cycle: nearly thirty lines of the original text survive.

The band also enjoyed high profile contracts with Hit & Run Publishing and Epic / Sony in addition to their One Little Indian contract.

*" London Girls " ( Live ) / " Stiff Little Fingers " ( Live ) ( Epic Records, SEPC 5565, August 1977 )

* 1985: The Staple Singers ( Private I / Epic )

After their distribution deal with Epic Records ended in 1984, the remaining Isleys signed with Warner Bros .. Before the contract could be completed, the group agreed with the IRS to sell their stock in T-Neck Records, folding the label in 1985.

In 1985, she signed with Epic Records and made one album for them, Spoiled Girl.

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

By 1985 Kru-Cut had produced World Class ’ debut album, ‘ World Class ’, with Cli-N-Tel leaving to control his own direction in life, leaving the group ’ s dancer Shakespear to step up to be the prominent MC as they signed with Epic Records.

( Epic ) ( 1985 )

Soul to Soul is the third studio album by American blues rock band Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released on September 30, 1985 by Epic Records.

Smith attempted to rekindle her mainstream career in 1985 with a new contract Epic Records.

* Non homologué ( 1985, Epic )

The One was a six-issue comic book limited series distributed by Epic Comics in 1985 – 1986.

* Epic Illustrated # 29 ( 1985 )

* The Epic Casebook ( 1957 – 1985 )-"... in which Inspector Carr investigates ..."-The highly successful detective series, starring Hugh Rouse as Inspector Carr.

* Another Place ( Epic / CBS ) 1985

Their debut album, Black and White ( originally titled Talking To God On The Great White Telephone ) and released by Epic Records in 1985 was critically well received, but by 1987 their record label was exerting pressure on the band to follow up with another album of a soulful direction, with the resulting album Moving Target alienating the band's fan base.

* Black and White ( Epic, 1985 )-UK Albums Chart # 74

The Butler brothers quickly formed a new band, Smash Palace, and signed with Epic Records in 1985.

When Smash Palace's A & R man, Dick Wingate, left Epic Records in 1985 he asked the band to come on over to his new label, Polygram Records.