hendiadys is often characterized by its elevation above the ordinary tone of conventional English and by a kind of syntactical complexity that seems fathomable only by an intuitional understanding of the way the words interweave their meanings, rather than by painstaking lexical analysis.
The oldest documented use of poetry discovered so far is a large body of texts called Vedas, which originate from Ancient India around 1700BC.
The poem is set mainly in Mesopotamia, where modern day Iraq is today. The story is set in ancient times, most like around 2700-600 BC, which is when scholars believe it was originally written. The setting is a time when people believe gods ruled the world and often got involved in the lives of mortals.