Round 8: Tossup 5

Jerome Rothenberg translated a poem in this language that describes a group with “loins empty of children” who “are horses that grow to great size, that feed on mountains.” A group of chthonic gods in the “terrible depth” appear in a poem in this language called “The Seven.” A man laments the loss of his property, friends, and health in a work in this language called the “Poem of the (-5[1])Righteous Sufferer.” (-5[1])In a passage that survives (-5[1])in this language, a man lays by the corpse of his companion until a maggot drops from his nose. (10[2]-5[8])Older (-5[1])stories written in an (-5[1])isolate are used to fill lacunae in a twelve-tablet text in this Semitic language that describes a man “who saw the deep.” For 10 points, the surviving versions (-5[1])of the Atrahasis Epic and the Enūma Elish were written (10[1])in what language (10[1])that preserves the most complete copy of the Epic (10[1])of Gilgamesh? (10[1])■END■ (10[10]0[3])

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