The Epic of Gilgamesh:

The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian

A. R. George

Penguin Popular Classics, Dec 31, 2002 - Fiction - 228 pages

Originally the work of an anonymous Babylonian poet who lived more than 3,700 years ago,The Epic of Gilgameshtells of the heroic exploits of the ruler of the walled city of Uruk. Not content with the immortality conveyed by the renown of his great deeds, Gilgamesh journeys to the ends of the earth and beyond in his search for eternal life, encountering the wise man Uta-napishti, who relates the story of a great flood that swept the earth. This episode and several others in the epic anticipate stories in the Bible and in Homer, to the great interest of biblical and classical scholars. Told with intense feeling and imagination, this masterful tale of love and friendship, duty and death, is more than an object of scholarly concern; it is a vital rendering of universal themes that resonate across the ages and is considered the world's first truly great work of literature.

@UrukRockCityAll the ladies want to get it on now that I’ve slain the demon. But I must decline. I’m a clean man these days.

I just can’t win with women. Before, nailing all the ladies was bad. Now I refuse to seduce, and the Gods send a giant bull to kill me?

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About the author (2002)

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.

Bibliographic information

Title	The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian Penguin Classics
Editor	A. R. George
Translated by	A. R. George
Contributor	A. R. George
Edition	illustrated, reprint, reissue
Publisher	Penguin Popular Classics, 2002
ISBN	0140449191, 9780140449198
Length	228 pages
Subjects	Fiction › Classics Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary

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