Fascinating. While reading The Literature Book, I learned The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest recorded story of all time. That prompted me to find a free online copy to read. Being a bookworm, I had to read the oldest story and see what it was like. It was like reading a story from the bible. Thoug...
Part of the fascination of this book lies simply with reading one of the oldest surviving stories that goes back to the very beginning of civilization. I got these dates and comments regarding some of the earliest surviving written works from the Wiki: 800 BCE Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey 1440-14...
Need to reread, I feel that there are a lot thing I missed. Something reminded me of other mythology I had read, especially from Odyssey.
Review to come.
Certainly not my first or second time reading this great adventure tale, I just had a hankering to see the stupidity of Enkindu and Gilgamesh, may they always be praised above all mortals, those two stupid louts of the age of Gemini. Still, it was neat to see the mash-up of the tree of life and deat...
The epic of Gilgamesh, the renowned king of Uruk in Mesopotamia, comes from an age which had been wholly forgotten, until in the last century archaeologists began uncovering the buried cities of the middle east. The epic celebrates the Sumerian king, Uru-inim-gina, as tragic hero. A masterpiece of...
For the most part I liked this book, I felt that Gilgamesh wasn't a very likable character in my viewpoint, he was very arrogant, and cowardly. He only does things that will benefit him in the end. This book takes a while to read because it is slow and not very entertaining, but it does pick up. I l...
How could I have forgotten to add this here - poor Enkidu~.More recently (only ~20 years ago lol) I read a prose version by a chappie called Silverberg, which is great as a primer.
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