$21.13
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2020
Summary
The definitive translation of the world’s oldest known epic, now revised in a second edition (2020) and updated with newly discovered material.
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, predates 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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140449198 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140449191 |
| Author: | Andrew George, Anonymous |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 232g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 129mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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A masterly verse translation * The Times *Andrew George has skillfully bridged the chasm between a scholarly re-edition and a popular work * London Review of Books *
About The Author
Andrew George
Andrew George is Professor of Babylonian at SOAS (the School of Oriential and African Studies), part of the University of London. His research has taken him many times to Iraq to visit Babylon and other ancient sites, and to museums in Baghdad, Europe and North America to read the original clay tablets on which the scribes of ancient Iraq wrote.
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