The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest work of great literature, inscribed on clay tablets more than a thousand years before Homer. It’s the Ur epic—the first Road Trip, Hero’s Adventure, bromance and homecoming all in one. It’s quoted in the Bible and it shapes Homer and provides him with tropes and characters, and since Homer, then on to Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Spenser, Milton. In Lifelong Learning’s The Epic of Gilgamesh: Cuneiform Tablets Meet Graphic Novel, the father/son team of Kent and Kevin Dixon will conduct a tour of how it all came about—the history of the epic, a short course in cuneiform, the trials of translation and the tribulations of rendering that as a comic book.

Presented by the Friends of Snow Library. For more information or to register, visit http://friendsofsnowlibrary.org/lifetime-learning-program/