The Epic of Gilgamesh - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0140447210 ISBN 13: 9780140447217

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2000

Riassunto

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH is the tale of one man's struggle against death. Not content with the immortal renown won by reckless deeds, the hero of the epic seeks immortality itself and journeys to the ends of the earth and beyond. The epic was originally the work of an anonymous Babylonian poet who lived more than 3,700 years ago. He composed the epic in Akkadian language, but the literary traditions of Gilgamesh go back even further to five poems in Sumerian. These texts are today being reconstructed from the many thousands of clay tablets recovered from the mounds that bury the cities of ancient Mesopotamia.

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L'autore:

Andrew George is Reader in Assyriology at SOAS (the School of Oriential and African Studies) in London, and is also an Honorary Lecturer at the University's Institute of Archaeology.
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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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140447210
• ISBN 13: 9780140447217
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304