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Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Kate - Goodreads

I've been reading mythology since I was a kid, and I'd read most of these tales before, but this is a superior presentation. Most of the introductory and explanatory information in other books reads ... Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Jesse Whyte - Goodreads

Good translation with excellent notes and introduction. Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Chris Moran - Goodreads

for me nothing really hit the high level after ATRAHASIS and GILGAMESH but the strengths here are revelatory and highly readable, even the really fragmentary parts. will be revisiting this. Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Ellen Whyte - Goodreads

I love old myths and this one is a classic. A lovely translation and excellent notes that place this story in a time and place. This book inspired me to read more about ancient civilisation. Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Raj - Goodreads

This is an interesting series of myths from ancient Mesopotamia, which were probably the origins of the tropes and archetypes that appear again and again in western mythology and narrative. The ... Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Ben - Goodreads

an academically rigorous edition of translated ancient mesopotamian tablets - fascinating and with excellent notes, glossary etc.; but the fragmentary nature of the texts was unexpected for me, I would have liked to have read some kind of facsimile of a whole text. Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Vanttefan - Goodreads

it is very interesting to read these mesopotamian myth Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Charles Thorland - Goodreads

A wonderful volume by a wonderful woman. My copy is absurdly marked up! I'm referring here to Stephanie Dalley's edition (1991). Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - Mariana - Goodreads

I am reading this book with great pleasure....my favorite is the myth of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk...this is one of those books I dont want it to end... Read full review

Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

User Review  - David Sarkies - Goodreads

Okay, before I begin by discussion of this book, I will mention that the book itself was first published in 1989 and was edited by Stephanie Daley, however the reason that I have gone for the original ... Read full review

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