Myths from Mesopotamia
Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
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- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2009
Summary
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 for immortality is dashed through one moment of weakness.
Recent developments in Akkadian grammar and lexicography mean that this new trans…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199538362 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199538360 |
| Author: | Stephanie Dalley |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 128mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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‘her enterprise is to be warmly welcomed’John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin, Hermathera
`has the great merit of including not only the obvious Gilgamesh and Creation texts but also the Atrahasis, Adapa, Etana, Anzu, and Erra stories and even the slight but highly suggestive “Theogony of Dunnu”‘Greece & Rome’handsomely produced book’A.R. George, SOAS BUlletin’her enterprise is to be warmly welcomed’John Dillon, Trinity College, Dublin, Hermathera
About The Author
Stephanie Dalley
Stephanie Dalley is Shillito Fellow in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute, Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford.
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