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Gilgamesh, King of Uruk , and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon ...
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Gilgamesh
A New English Version
Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world
literature, and although previously there have been competent
scholarly translations of it, until now there has not been a
version that is a superlative literary text in its own right.
Acclaimed translator Stephen Mitchell's lithe, muscular rendering
allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first
time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it
is. His insightful introduction provides a historical, spiritual,
and cultural context for this ancient epic, showing that Gilgamesh
is more potent and fascinating than ever.
Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE -- a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century. When the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke first read Gilgamesh in 1916, he was awestruck. "Gilgamesh is stupendous," he wrote. "I consider it to be among the greatest things that can happen to a person."
The epic is the story of literature's first hero -- the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq -- and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city, that a preemptive attack on a monster can have dire consequences, and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. In giving voice to grief and the fear of death -- perhaps more powerfully than any book written after it -- in portraying love and vulnerability and the ego's hopeless striving for immortality, the epic has become a personal testimony for millions of readers in dozens of languages.
The
Epic of Gilgamesh An English Version With an Introduction
This edition provides a prose rendering of The
Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of poems preserved on clay
tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third
mi llennium B.C. One of the best and most important pieces of epic
poetry from human history, predating even Homer's Iliad by roughly
1,500...
Gilgamesh
A New Rendering in English Verse
This is one of the more recent translations of the
Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, about the
hero-king of ancient Mesopotamia whose
adventures--searching for eternal life, surviving a worldwide
deluge in an ark filled with animals, to name a couple--make up
one of oldest pieces of literature on...
The
Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.E.) is one of the
world's greatest epic narratives and, quite possibly, its oldest
epic poem. Our text is based on a new English translation from
original sources. An introduction, interpretive headings,
explanatory annotations, and illustrations guide...
Myths
from Mesopotamia Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
These tales from the ancient civilizations of the "fertile
crescent" stand alongside the Odyssey and the Arabian
Nights in being popular with an international audience at
the dawn of recorded history. Here are myths of the Creation and
of the Flood, as well as the fascinating Epic of Gilgamesh,
a...
The Epic of Gilgamesh The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian
Gilgamesh
A Verse Narrative
Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is
the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient
Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal
stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh
presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and
reparations within the...
The Archetypal Significance of Gilgamesh A Modern Ancient Hero
The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels
Gilgamesh Translated from the Sin-Leqi-Unninni Version
Legends Folklore Mythology Fairy Tales
Anthropology & Folklore Magazines
Unexplained Phenomena & Mysteries
Astral Projection Out of Body Experience
Loch Ness Monster Sea Monsters
Vampires, Werewolves and Monsters
