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The Epic of Gilgamesh : An English Verison with an Introduction
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The Epic of Gilgamesh : An English Verison with an Introduction Paperback - 1960

by N. K. Sandars (Translator); Introduction by N. K. Sandars

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  • Title The Epic of Gilgamesh : An English Verison with an Introduction
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1960-12-30
  • Features Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP96688642
  • ISBN 9780140441000 / 014044100X
  • Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.3 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 0.76 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 78318052
  • Dewey Decimal Code 892.1

Summary

‘I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest’ Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the third millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh’s grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a landmark literary exploration of man’s search for immortality. N. K. Sandars’s lucid, accessible translation is prefaced by a detailed introduction that examines the narrative and historical context of the work. In addition, there is a glossary of names and a map of the Ancient Orient.


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About the author

N. K. Sandars studied, soon after the war, with Professor Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, and took the diploma of the Institute. She continued to work at Oxford, taking a B.Litt. degree in the prehistory of Europe, and thereafter she worked on the prehistory of the Aegean, receiving a studentship at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, a scholarship from Oxford University and a travelling prize from the University of Liverpool. She has travelled extensively in Europe and in the Near and Middle East, and has taken part in excavations in the British Isles and overseas. She has contributed article to various journals and is the author of Bronze Age Cultures in France, Prehistoric Art in Europe, Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, and The Sea Peoples. She is a fellow the British Academy and of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

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