num_pages: 120
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.
language: English
title: The Epic of Gilgamesh
titlecomplete: The Epic of Gilgamesh
characters: Humbaba, Enkidu, Ishtar, Gilgamesh, Uta-napishti
genres: Mythology, Religion, School, Poetry, Literature, Fantasy, Classics, Epic, Fiction, Ancient
ratings_count: 91616
places: Ur, Mesopotamia
awards: awardedAt: 1672560000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Traducció
publisher: Penguin Books Limited