The Epic of Gilgamesh, Lecture by Andrew George
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ASIN: 0865163529
- ISBN: 0865163529
- Brand: Brand: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
- Manufacturer: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
The longing stretch toward the infinite...the reluctant embrace of the temporal. This is the eternal lot of mankind. This is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Our revised 2nd edition of mankind's first epic features a lucid historical and cultural introduction by Dr. Biggs, a new interpretive essay on the themes of Gilgamesh by James G. Keenan and their echoe... [Read More]
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
- ASIN: B003P9XHZ8
- Manufacturer: Atria Books
Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although previously there have been competent scholarly translations of it, until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed translator Stephen Mitchell's lithe, muscular rendering allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece ... [Read More]
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Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse
- ASIN: B00O0F3MNI
- Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Gilgamesh: The New Translation
- ASIN: B00LWGORX2
- Manufacturer: Insignia Publishing
Special Pre-Publication Promotional Price."Gilgamesh is monumental!" - Rainer Maria RilkeThe EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the oldest story that has come down to us through the ages of history. It predates the BIBLE, the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. GILGAMESH relates the tale of the fifth king of the first dynasty of Uruk (in what is modern day Iraq) who reigned ... [Read More]
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ASIN: 014044100X
- ISBN: 014044100X
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: 0140449191
- ISBN: 9780140449198
- Brand: Penguin Books
- Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureA Penguin ClassicMiraculously 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 adventure... [Read More]
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Gilgamesh the King
- ASIN: B00CHW64T0
- Manufacturer: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics)
- ASIN: 0199538360
- ISBN: 9780199538362
- Brand: imusti
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest ... [Read More]
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Gilgamesh
- ASIN: 0394740890
- ISBN: 0394740890
- Manufacturer: Vintage
The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The princip... [Read More]
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Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative
- UPC: 046442275644
- ASIN: 0618275649
- ISBN: 0618275649
- Brand: Mason, Herbert
- Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is 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.... [Read More]
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#verse - Stainless Steel Hashtag 12oz Camping Mug, Black
- ASIN: B07QDG5NGV
- Brand: Molandra Products
- Size: 12 ounce
- Manufacturer: Molandra Products
When you are feeling saucy and you need something to say it without saying it, grab this camping mug and fill it with your favorite liquid. It should be alcohol but if that is not your fancy, do as you please.
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The Saga of Grettir the Strong (Penguin Classics)
- ASIN: B002RI94LE
- Manufacturer: Penguin
Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great Icelandic sagas. It relates the tale of Grettir, an eleventh-century warrior struggling to hold on to the values of a heroic age becoming eclipsed by Christianity and a more pastoral lifestyle. Unable to settle into a communit... [Read More]
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Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
- ASIN: 0060908548
- ISBN: 9780060908546
- Brand: Harper Perennial
- Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with visual artifacts of the period. "A great masterpiece of universal literature."--Mircea Eliade
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
- ASIN: 0804717117
- ISBN: 0804717117
- Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Norton Critical Editions)
- UPC: 000393975169
- ASIN: 0393975169
- ISBN: 0393975169
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest epic masterpiece. More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits by finding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presents translations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman of... [Read More]
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Beowulf (Dover Thrift Editions)
- UPC: 800759272648
- ASIN: 0486272648
- ISBN: 0486272648
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
One of the most universally studied of the English classics, Beowulf is considered the finest heroic poem in Old English. Written ten centuries ago, it celebrates the character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden.Beowulf first rescues the royal house of Denmark from two marauding monsters, then return... [Read More]
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Gilgamesh:: A Klingon Translation
- ASIN: 1587153386
- ISBN: 1587153386
- Brand: Brand: Wildside Press
- Manufacturer: Wildside Press
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Reading and Writing in Babylon
- ASIN: 0674049683
- ISBN: 9780674049680
- Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Over 5,000 years ago, the history of humanity radically changed direction when writing was invented in Sumer, the southern part of present-day Iraq. For the next three millennia, kings, aristocrats, and slaves all made intensive use of cuneiform script to document everything from royal archives to family records.In engaging style, Dominique Charpin... [Read More]
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Prose Rendition Based upon the Original Akkadian, Babylonian, Hittite and Sumerian Tablets
- ASIN: 0595178634
- ISBN: 0595178634
- Manufacturer: iUniverse
This is the first edition of the publication.A newer revised edition was published in 2018.The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written chronicle in the world, composed two to three thousand years before Christ. It tells events in the life of a king in an ancient Sumerian city of Mesopotamia.In the tradition of the Greek Iliad or the medieval Beowu... [Read More]
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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics)
- ASIN: 0192835890
- ISBN: 0192835890
- Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the tale of a man of great strength, whose heroic quest ... [Read More]
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