Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
Sep 28, 2011
Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-10
0307760820
ISBN-13
9780307760821
Description
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.
The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.
The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.
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I had to read this book for a class called World Thought. Not something that I would normally read and not quite the style I like, but the story was interesting.
May 18th 2025