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  1. The adventures in Gilgamesh anticipate those in other works of epic poetry, including Homer's Odyssey, covered in "Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind" (see pages 225–530 in volume A) and Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara, covered in "India's Classical Age" (see pages 1342–1352 in volume B).
  2. Christians reinterpreted and expanded the Bible with the four Gospels and other documents, which collectively became known as the New Testament, covered in "From Roman Empire to Christian Europe" (see pages 1206–1221 in volume B).
 
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