Template:Did you know nominations/Gilgamesh

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:47, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Gilgamesh[edit]

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Relief of Gilgamesh slaying the Bull of Heaven

... that most historians generally agree that Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk? Source: "Most historians generally agree that Gilgamesh was a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk,[6][7][8] who probably ruled sometime during the early part of the Early Dynastic Period (c. 2900 – 2350 BC).[6][7] Stephanie Dalley, a scholar of the ancient Near East, states that "precise dates cannot be given for the lifetime of Gilgamesh, but they are generally agreed to lie between 2800 and 2500 BC."[7]"
- ALT1:... that the first modern literary adaptation of the ancient Sumerian story of Gilgamesh was a book-length romantic poem, Ishtar and Izdubar (1884) by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton? Source: "The first modern literary adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh was Ishtar and Izdubar (1884) by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton, an American lawyer and businessman.[71]… Hamilton's book relied heavily on Smith's translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh,[72] but also made major changes.[72] For instance, Hamilton omitted the famous flood story entirely[72] and instead focused on the romantic relationship between Ishtar and Gilgamesh.[72] Ishtar and Izdubar expanded the original roughly 3,000 lines of the Epic of Gilgamesh to roughly 6,000 lines of rhyming couplets grouped into forty-eight cantos.[72] Hamilton significantly altered most of the characters and introduced entirely new episodes not found in the original epic.[72] Significantly influenced by Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Edwin Arnold's The Light of Asia,[72] Hamilton's characters dress more like nineteenth-century Turks than ancient Babylonians.[73] Hamilton also changed the tone of the epic from the "grim realism" and "ironic tragedy" of the original to a "cheery optimism" filled with "the sweet strains of love and harmony".[74]"

Improved to Good Article status by Katolophyromai (talk). Self-nominated at 20:02, 1 June 2018 (UTC).

GA, in time, long enough, sourced, in-line hook citations check out (ALT0 preferred), no apparent copyvios. Katolophyromai, QPQ needed. Also, such a big and important article would hopefully run in the picture slot; how about the Bull of Heaven relief? Finally, not a DYK issue, but some of the refs (e.g., #60) are inconsistent. —Usernameunique (talk) 13:01, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

@Usernameunique: I prefer ALT0 as well and, frankly, I did not try very hard with ALT1. I have added the relief of Gilgamesh slaying the Bull of Heaven to this nomination. I would be fine with it being used for the image, but I would be very surprised if it is actually used. I have done "Did you know" entries before for other articles that are equally, if not more important as Gilgamesh, such as Pythagoras and Satan, and none of them have ever had images featured, so I figured there was no point in even including a picture with the nomination, since I did not think there was any chance of it actually being used. Oh well. Maybe this time I will get lucky and the image will be used. Who knows? --Katolophyromai (talk) 17:28, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Katolophyromai, thanks for adding that. Just need the QPQ now. —Usernameunique (talk) 20:24, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

@Usernameunique: I just started reviewing the DYK nomination for the article Vladimir Kokolia. --Katolophyromai (talk) 19:26, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

All set now. --Usernameunique (talk) 19:39, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

@Usernameunique: Thanks! --Katolophyromai (talk) 19:57, 5 June 2018 (UTC)