Gilgamesh (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together.
Full description- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Published: 06 October 2005
- Format: Paperback 304 pages
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- Categories: Poetry Anthologies (various Poets)
- ISBN 13: 9781861977984 ISBN 10: 1861977980
- Sales rank: 203,766
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Full description for Gilgamesh
Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together. After Enkidu's death the distraught Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Great Flood, made immortal by the Gods to ask him the secret of life and death. "Gilgamesh" is the first and remains one of the most important works of world literature. Written in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C., it predates the Iliad by roughly 1,000 years. "Gilgamesh" is extraordinarily modern in its emotional power but also provides an insight into the values of an ancient culture and civilisation.
