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...
It’s an ancient text so characterization and what not is vastly not what a modern reader is use to. That said, it is worth a read, and can be read rather quickly. Sanders seems to be correct because a reader who is familiar with the epics and heroes that come after can see the root here. It is, in s...
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...
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a brief, albeit quite profound work of literature. In the interest of reading a translation as close to the original text as possible, I selected an edition translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs, published by Stanford University Press in 1989. I'm aware of other translations ...
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...
"Six days and seven nights I wept for him, I would not give him up for burial, Until a worm fell out of his nose." Ancient bromances are intense, man. But really, while this was a fascinating read, it was not an altogether pleasant one. My edition followed the story as close to the tablets as poss...
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