The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian
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Penguin Books Ltd
UK
2003
Reissue
Paperback
228
Standard
267743
978-0-14-044919-8
0-14-044919-1
Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian; Translations into English.
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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.
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