The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)

The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)
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Author: Anonymous
Translator: N. K. Sandars
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1960-12-30
ISBN: 014044100X
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Book Review: Eye Opening Epic
Summary: 5 Stars

It will be obvious that plagerism is not a recent phenomenon. When you are aware of Gilgamesh, the supposed wise sages of books like the Torah, Bible, what ever the Arabs call their drivel, you will realize that you have been duped as the authors of those works merely ripped-off the Greeks, Egyptians and other cultures that pre-dated them. I, for one, have no wish to perpetuate the supposed divinity of Middle-Eastern religions. I never quite got the vengeful God only to later take anger management classes and become a loving God thing! There is definitely something more to the Universe than random chance, but Mankind does not yet have a handle on that knowledge, certainly not the rediculous, violent, crimes against Humanity, Middle East.

Summary of The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics)

This edition provides a prose rendering of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the cycle of poems preserved on clay tablets surviving from ancient Mesopotamia of the third mi llennium B.C. One of the best and most important pieces of epic poetry from human history, predating even Homer's Iliad by roughly 1,500 years, the Gilgamesh epic tells of the various adventures of that hero-king, including his quest for immortality, and an account of a great flood similar in many details to the Old Testament's story of Noah. The translator also provides an interesting and useful introduction explaining much about the historical context of the poem and the archeological discovery of th e tablets.

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