I came up with this because I learned from Tumblr that there’s apparently more than a hundred fanfics for The Epic of Gilgamesh on Ao3, and I think it’s poetic in a way how we’ve still never really gotten over the first story ever.

My answer would be Le Roman de Silence, from the early 1200s, which is about the adventures Silence, a boy who was born as a girl (that’s the author’s way of describing him)and who eventually becomes a knight. I just stumbled across it randomly but I fell in love with it after reading it the first time, and I think it’s beautiful how something 1000 years old can still be around and not have lost any of it’s capability for arousing our emotions.

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    1 year ago

    But it is also a meditation on mortality, thus covering the rest of the Iliad, and a story of adventure and return, thus covering the Odyssey (yes yes, I’m talking very loosely). And a reflection on civilization vs wild nature, and a precursor to the flooding myth. And and and.

    Do read it