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The world's first story.(Poem)
Derrek Hines, translator Gilgamesh. Anchor Books, 66 pages, $9.95
Stephen Mitchell, translator Gilgamesh: A New English Version. The Free Press, 290 pages, $24.00
About a century and a half ago, the name "Gilgamesh" meant nothing to the ordinary person--or even to the ordinary educated person. It was simply unknown. In the 1840s, however, an Englishman whose head was filled with exotic visions from A Thousand and One Nights began excavating at an archaeological site in what is now Iraq. Austen Henry Layard unearthed a trove of clay tablets full of strange wedge-shaped markings. He understood this to be a form of ancient writing and shipped thousands of ...
- An epic in flux: Gilgamesh, the world's first great literaly work, is still...
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Bose, Sudip March 22, 2007 700+ words
...literature at Columbia, writes, Gilgamesh was "widely read in the Near...tablets containing The Epic of Gilgamesh. (Eleven of the tablets...1872, an Englishman named George Smith encountered the fragments...translate. Smith had rediscovered Gilgamesh, and his success transformed...
- Damrosch, David. The buried book; the loss and rediscovery of the Great Epic of...
- Magazine article from: Kliatt Levitov, Francine May 1, 2008 700+ words
...rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh. Read by William Hughes...95. A The Great Epic of Gilgamesh, some 1,500 years older...recounts the spiritual quest of Gilgamesh, a heroic demigod, and contains...generally unrecognized efforts of George Smith, a self-educated Englishman...
- Gilgamesh and the quest for immortality.(Excerpt)
- Magazine article from: Calliope Gundlach, Susan October 1, 2006 700+ words
...lapis lazuli and read it aloud: How Gilgamesh endured everything harsh, Overpowering kings, famous, powerfully built ... Gilgamesh, dazzling, sublime ... Is there a...like him, anywhere? Excerpted from the Gilgamesh tablets uncovered at Nineveh NOTE: For...
- The development and meaning of the Epic of Gilgamesh: an interpretive essay.
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Abusch, Tzvi October 1, 2001 700+ words
...twelve-tablet) of the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh and examines the development of meaning...heroic values that the warrior-hero Gilgamesh represents and those other existential...that appear in the Epic in the form of Gilgamesh's several non-heroic identities...
- Exceeding the love of women.(When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Frontain, Raymond-Jean March 1, 2006 700+ words
...The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman Columbia...David exceeded." The Mesopotamian hero Gilgamesh likewise grieved in an extravagantly...created by the gods to serve as a check on Gilgamesh's lawless sexual energies and who...
- A new edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh.(The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic:...
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Foster, Benjamin R. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...George's new edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh is in every respect worthy of its great...amateur field, Stephen Mitchell's Gilgamesh: A New English Version (New York...reliable text of what remains of the Epic of Gilgamesh for the first time and we can hope that...
- Gilgamesh, o la angustia por la muerte (poema babilonio).
- Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Pardo, Jose Gonzalo Rubio April 1, 1997 700+ words
...edition of the first Spanish translation of Gilgamesh, made directly from the original Akkadian...example, Gunter Dux's Liebe und Tod im Gilgamesh-Epos: Geschichte als Weg zum Selbstbewusstsein...1992), where Dux seems to rethink Gilgamesh in the light of der Engel der Geschichte...
- When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and...
- Magazine article from: Journal of the History of Sexuality Nissinen, Martti May 1, 2007 700+ words
...Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. By SUSAN ACKERMAN. Gender, Theory...of the relationship of two heroic couples, Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh and David and Jonathan in the biblical books...
Source: HighBeam Research, The world's first story.(Poem)