LA EPOPEYA DE GILGAMESH Y LA DEFINICIÓN DE LOS LÍMITS HUMANOS

Abstract

The reading of Gilgamesh's myth considering the concept of "hybris" -a term minted in ancient Greece, but whos philosophical permanency lasts up until today- offers us the posibility to observe how the limits of "the human" begun to be defined in a time so distant to philosophy's birth as this is distante to our present. Gisgamesh's Epopee - whos myth is a part of the first written texts we preserve, that take us back to the fourth milenium b. C. Sumerian civilization- proposes already a map of teh human existence in teh world that doesn't lie far away from the one we could find in the classical greek mythology: humans define them selves as "something" (whatever that may be) in relation to certain limits that they cannot trespass -the inmortality of Gods and the unconsciousness of animals-, in front of which they oppose the "hybris" -the "essence of human ethos"-, an inalienable propensity ot trepass the own limits.