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Author | : Irving Finkel |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780844247014 |
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Long ago, in a time of magic, there lived a mighty king whose name was Gilgamesh. He ruled a great city, and he was the noblest and strongest of men. Everyone bowed down to him; no fighter could match him. Surely he had everything he could want. But Gilgamesh was restless, and bored.
Author | : Irving Finkel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9780714121260 |
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The story of the great hero Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, is one of the oldest epics in the world. Dating from some 5000 years ago, it has been preserved on ancient clay tablets. As well as tales of gods, monsters and high adventure, this text includes a version of the Biblical story of the flood.
Author | : Irving Finkel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
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ISBN | : 9780844247014 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780192741868 |
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A major publishing event - two of the UK's outstanding prize-winning artists working together for the first timeThe legend of Gilgamesh is the oldest written story, pre-dating both The Bible and The Iliad. An epic story about a quest for immortality, it also includes a legend of the Flood that is remarkably similar to the story of Noah.* Geraldine McCaughrean has won every major prize for children's literature in this country, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, and, most recently, The Blue Peter Best Book to Keep Forever Award.* David Parkins is a highly acclaimed artist, and has been shortlisted for the Kurt Maschler and Smarties awards. He received many critical accolades for God's Story with Jan Mark
Author | : Susan Ackerman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0231132603 |
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Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King, Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, 'my friend whom I loved dearly'. This book examines the stories' sexual and homoerotic language and suggests that its ambiguity provides fresh ways of understanding ideas of gender and sexuality in the ancient Near East.
Author | : Rivkah Schärf Kluger |
Publisher | : Daimon |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Gilgamesh |
ISBN | : 3856305238 |
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A Jungian psychoanalytical interpretation of the Gilgamesh Epic.
Author | : Louise M. Pryke |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2019-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317506707 |
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Gilgamesh focuses on the eponymous hero of the world’s oldest epic and his legendary adventures. However, it also goes further and examines the significance of the story’s Ancient Near Eastern context, and what it tells us about notions of kingship, animality, and the natures of mortality and immortality. In this volume, Louise M. Pryke provides a unique perspective to consider many foundational aspects of Mesopotamian life, such as the significance of love and family, the conceptualisation of life and death, and the role of religious observance. The final chapter assesses the powerful influence of Gilgamesh on later works of ancient literature, from the Hebrew Bible, to the Odyssey, to The Tales of the Arabian Nights, and his reception through to the modern era. Gilgamesh is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to understand this fascinating figure, and more broadly, the relevance of Near Eastern myth in the classical world and beyond.
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Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2003-07-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0547526601 |
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National Book Award Finalist: The most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations, within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A National Book Award finalist, Herbert Mason’s retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet’s long affinity with the original. “Mr. Mason’s version is the one I would recommend to the first-time reader.” —Victor Howes, The Christian Science Monitor “Like the Tolkien cycle, this poem will be read with profit and joy for generations to come.” —William Alfred, Harvard University
Author | : R. Campbell Thompson |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-26 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781015427921 |
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Rob Simone |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-02 |
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ISBN | : 9781434848963 |
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The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic story from Babylonia and is among the earliest known literary works. Scholars surmise that a series of Sumerian legends and poems about the mythological hero-king Gilgamesh, thought to be a ruler in the 3rd millennium BC, were gathered into a longer Akkadian poem. Long afterward the most complete version in existence today is preserved on twelve clay tablets in the library collection of the 7th century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal. The essential story revolves around the relationship between Gilgamesh, a king who has become distracted and disheartened by his rule, and a friend, Enkidu, who is half-wild and who undertakes dangerous quests with Gilgamesh. Much of the epic focuses on Gilgamesh's thoughts of loss following Enkidu's death, and is often credited by historians as being one of the first literary work with high emphasis on immortality.