Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
User Review - Jesse Whyte - GoodreadsGood translation with excellent notes and introduction. Read full review
Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
User Review - Kate - GoodreadsI'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 - Ellen Whyte - GoodreadsI 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 - GoodreadsThis 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 - Goodreadsan 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.
Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
User Review - Vanttefan - Goodreadsit 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 - GoodreadsA 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 - GoodreadsI 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 - GoodreadsOkay, 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
Review: Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
User Review - Bruce - GoodreadsJust started this book after having read Gilgamesh in other sources. I like the attention to detail and hearing what the tablets actually say lacuna and all. From Atrahasis I: the god Enki makes man ... Read full review
