The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A. S. Byatt: “They say, 'Why have you come?' And Gilgamesh says, 'For Enkidu my friend. And to see my father Uta-Napishtim among the gods.'”
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell: “Sixthmonth 18th, Epic of Gilgamesh; Seventhmonth 2nd, Ireneo Funes’s Remembrances; Ninthmonth 1st, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall.”