Marvel meets Mesopotamia: how modern comics preserve ancient myths
- Written by Louise Pryke, Lecturer, Languages and Literature of Ancient Israel, Macquarie University
Gilgamesh (right) in his first appearance as an Avenger in the Marvel comic Avengers Vol 1 300Marvel Database
Ancient Mesopotamia, the region roughly encompassing modern-day Iraq, Kuwait and parts of Syria, Iran and Turkey, gave us what we could consider some of the earliest known literary “superheroes”.
One was the hero Lugalbanda,...
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