Gilgamesh
Subtitle: a new English version
By: Stephen Mitchell
Contributors: Mitchell, Stephen, 1943-
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Work titles: Gilgamesh. English
Description: "Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE - a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century." "The epic is the story of literature's first hero - the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq - and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city, that a preemptive attack on a monster can have dire consequences, and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-285)