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"The Gilgamesh epic is one of the world's oldest and most important legends. Gilgamesh is a terrible tyrant. When he orders his subjects to build a great wall, the exhausted people are in despair. But the evil king meets the 'uncivilized' Enkidu, and learns lessons of friendship and true humanity that will change him forever"--Cover.
5) Gilgamesh
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Pub. Date
2004
Description
Presents a contemporary retelling of the world's oldest epic, in which Gilgamesh, the semidivine ruler of Urku, is befriended by Enkidu, a wild, handsome man created by the gods to tame the arrogant Gilgamesh.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The Epic of Gilgamesh is the Ur epic--the hero's journey, quest, and education--inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the epic date back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to become a proper human being and therefore a wise king, and to do so, besides defeating lions and monsters and surviving great physical and emotional...