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Home Classics General Fiction Gilgamesh: A New English Version. Gilgamesh: A New English Version PDF. Title Gilgamesh: A New English Version Author Stephen Mitchell Publisher Atria Books Category Classics General Fiction Poetry Released Date Language English Format EPUB Pages Total Downloads 18, Total Views 75, Rating 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star. Read Online. Summary Written byZLIBS Editors Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of ancient literature, telling the story of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, as he goes through adventures of self-discovery and battle.
Your review Optional. smiley 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star. alexandraseaha 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star. Open your legs, show him your beauty. Do not hold back, take his wind away. Seeing you, he will come near. Strip off your clothes so he can mount you. Make him know, this-man-as-he-was, what a woman is. His beasts who grew up in his wilderness will turn from him. He will press his body over your wildness. And man, did it ever work. It is like mainlining the poor bastard with some pure China White. He is hooked. Enkido and Gilgamesh, after their property destroying epic battle, became best friends. Inseparable until death parts them. They kill the Bull of Heaven after the beast is sent for by the scorned goddess Ishtar. Which of your little shepherds has continued to please you? Come, let me name your lovers for you,".
which is actually very astute of Gilgamesh, who is really better known as a love them and leave them type. There is, in fact, a lot of grumbling about his Middle Ages type insistence that he has firsties with any new bride in the kingdom. I guess the rat bastard aristocracy of the Medieval period had read a copy of Gilgamesh, or maybe we can assume that men with absolute power have always been the same. Enkidu and Gilgamesh. There must be a price paid for killing the Bull of Heaven, and the Gods are not going to strike down their golden boy, Gilgamesh, so that leaves his best friend, Enkido, to be the fall guy.
When you are on an away mission with Gilgamesh, you always wear the red shirt. until a worm fell out of his nose. Then I was afraid. I really think that maybe Gilgamesh hopes the gods will take pity on him and listen to his lamentations and restore life to Enkidu, but my rule has always been, when a worm falls out of a loved one's nose, it is time to bury him or run like hell because Uncle Ted has just joined the Walking Dead. Gilgamesh travels to the underworld looking for his friend. I love this line: "His face was like that of one who travels a long road. There is a long digression in the story while Sin-Leqi-Unninni relates THE FLOOD story, starring Utnapishtim as Noah. The rest of the starring characters, that would be us sinners, are drowned. We are merely bobbing nuisances in the water, as a backdrop to Utnapishtim's celebratory high 5s with the giraffes, gorillas, and gazelles.
Though nonsensical for Sin-Leqi-Unninni to shove Gilgamesh off center stage, it is actually very interesting to read. My family raises a lot of wheat, so the whole image of raining down wheat to feed Utnapishtim and his family is something I have never heard of in connection with the Noah version, but I really like the visual of wheat cascading from heaven to fill up the deck of the boat. On his journey, Gilgamesh finds a weed that will restore his vigor and youthfulness. He wants to take it back to Uruk and share it with others. I'm already thinking to myself, gobble it down man, save some for others, but gobble yours now. This is a blast to read. The notes that Gardner and Maier provide are invaluable to help me better understand the story, so don't just read Gilgamesh , allow yourself to be immersed in the whole experience.
I would read the text from the tablet and then read the notes to find some, not so subtle, changes occurring to my own interpretation of the meaning. Use these experts to heighten not only your knowledge but also your overall enjoyment of reading one of the oldest known stories in existence. John Gardner. I keep pondering the unexpected death of John Gardner in He died in a tragic motorcycle accident at the tender age of 49, before this book was published. I couldn't help thinking of him because the notes are infused with his charismatic personality and his boyish enthusiasm.
He had been drinking but was below the legal limit at the time. John Maier feels that he was overworked from too many projects and too little sleep. I first encountered Gardner when I read his wonderful, slender volume Grendel , which I really need to reread so I can write a review for it. I didn't know that he was already dead at the time that I read Grendel , but when I did find it out later, I felt that temporary displacement of learning bad news as if it had just happened. RIP John Gardner. May you be able to complete your tasks in the next life. Rather then go into the details of the story which are adequately explained in the book description and are fairly well known, I will just give some thoughts about my impression of the story.
This is an epic heroic story in the ancient sense of the word. Gilgamesh is a hero like the Greek gods, not necessarily "good" but rather smarter, stronger and more powerful than all those around him. While reading this, I kept finding myself thinking that I can't believe this was written over years ago and is still so incredibly entertaining. I was also amazed that this story again written over years ago includes an almost verbatim version of the "Great Flood" story from the Old Testament down to the smallest details. There is a similar allusion to the loss of innocence through the machinations of an evil serpent that bear a striking example to the "Fall of Adam and Eve.
One final note: I listened to the audio version narrated by George Guidall who did an absolutely superb job and added to my enjoyment of the narrative. I cannot rate the Epic of Gilgamesh because I only listened to it as it was among the first piece of literature known to man and I was curios. Plus it was short. I am reading the Literature Book, an excellent history of the art of the written word and this was the first entry. The first category is called heroes and legends and covers titles from BCE to CE. I am planning to read some of the books mentio. I am planning to read some of the books mentioned there while I go through that tome so I will be mentioning TLB quite often in the following period.
Ok, back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. It was written on tablets in ancient Sumer, at around BCE and discovered in The fragments tell the story of King Gilgamesh of Uruk, an oppressive ruler of how he changes to a hero after he is taught a lesson by the gods. It is probably the first bildungsroman in history. I cannot say I enjoyed listening to this Epic but I am glad I did. Since I am so confounded I decided not to give any rating. My Epic adventure continues with The Iliad, which is definitely not short as this one, so it will probably takes some time. Wish me luck that I will enjoy the process. The Gilgamesh epic is one of the great masterpieces of world literature. One of the early translations so inspired the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in that he became almost intoxicated with pleasure and wonder, and repeated the story to all he met. This universal theme does indeed tie together the various strands of the epic poem - it tells of one man's heroic struggle against death, for eternal life - first through immortal renown through glorious deeds, then for eternal life itself.
It then goes on to describe of his despair when confronted with the inevitable failure, and of his eventual realization that the only immortality he may expect is the enduring name afforded by leaving behind some lasting achievement. The epic is also a work from which one is expected to learn from: the poet enjoins us in the prologue, to read about ' the travails of Gilgamesh, all that he went through! Life, of necessity, is hard, but one is the wiser for it. Thus, it is also a story of one man's 'path to wisdom', of how he is formed by his successes and failures.
It also deals with profound debates on the proper duties of kingship, what a good king should do and should not do - in the end, Uta-napishti's lesson to Gilgamesh is of the duties of kings and discourses on the inevitability of death and the fleeting nature of life. The wisdom he received at the ends of the earth from the survivor of the Deluge, Uta-napishti, enabled Gilgamesh to restore civilization to its earlier splendor. The quest has taught Gilgamesh how to build his city back to its antediluvian glory. Through Uta-napishti', the epic also artfully weaves into Gilgamesh's own story the traditional tale of the Deluge, the great flood that permeates most ancient myths. Here, Gilgamesh brings home an important meaning of the ever-present flood myth. It allows us to see that the conquering of death is impossible but that preserving of life and culture and civilization - ancient myths like to personify entire civilizations in its heroes is the most important challenge.
And it is achievable. Gilgamesh has always been thought of as a life-affirming epic that asks us to live life and abandon the quest for avoiding death. But look once again at the advice of the flood-surviver, Uta-napishti:. Gilgamesh does not ask human kind to avoid the fruitless quest. The quest is as unavoidable as Enkidu's death that prompted it. As long as Enkidu s die, Gilgamesh s will try to soar beyond human capacity. This is the cause for great hope. Gilgamesh celebrates an hopeful view that even mighty floods and decay cannot completely wipe out human civilization. It comes mighty close and it takes a wise king like Gilgamesh, but it is possible to overcome, to prevail. That is the hope that Gilgamesh holds out to us. This edition is probably the most comprehensive and scholarly version of the epic yet published. It is not dumbed down for the general audience and is not easy reading.
The translator has opted for the integrity of the text over the ease of the reader. The text presented in this translation is fragmentary at best and could be frustrating for the reader. It takes patience and imagination from the reader to work through passages such as this …. indicate missing text :. In spite of all the difficulties, it is worth persevering. For this translation is definitely more rewarding than the 'freer' translations such as Stephen Mitchell's. However, a cautionary note for the reader from the translator :. While there is a temptation for a modern editor to ignore the gaps, to gloss them over or to join up disconnected fragments of text, I believe that no adult reader is well served by such a procedure. The gaps are themselves important in number and size, for they remind us how much is still to be learned of the text.
They prevent us from assuming that we have Gilgamesh entire. Whatever we say about the epic is provisional, for new discoveries of text may change our interpretation of whole passages. Nevertheless, the epic we have now is considerably fuller than that which fired the imagination of Rilke. Approach what lies ahead not as you might the poems of Homer but as a book part-eaten by termites or a scroll half-consumed by fire. Accept it for what it is, a damaged masterpiece. It is at times hilarious in its absurdity and unexpectedly cavalier in its retelling of events.
With elements of the story dating back as far as BC, I am awed by its historical significance but a lack of any real profundity and heavy verbatim repetition made this a middle-of-the-road experienc. With elements of the story dating back as far as BC, I am awed by its historical significance but a lack of any real profundity and heavy verbatim repetition made this a middle-of-the-road experience for me. My edition is the Penguin Classic's Andrew George translation. Usually, I would advise against trusting anyone with two first names but in this case, I'll make an exception as he includes an incredibly comprehensive introduction regarding the nature of the text and the difficulties in translating both Mesopotamian and Akkadian tablets. Be aware that it's completely spoiler-filled, if spoilers are even a thing for year-old texts, as George pretty much explains the presumed significance of the various chapters in the intro. This edition includes 'The Standard Version of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: 'He who saw the Deep' , which George explains is the work of a scholar by the name of Sin-leqi-unninni who, most likely, lived sometime between the 13th and 11th century BC but was certainly not the original author, just a redactor.
As the reconstruction of this epic still has considerable gaps, it is supplemented in places by older Akkadian material or even the Hittite version of the text and verified by comparison to old Babylonian tablets written in the early 18th century. In addition, we also get 'The Sumerian Poems of Gilgamesh' , 'Fragments of Old Versions of the Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic' and 'Miscellaneous Babylonian Fragments'. There is an insane amount of repetition! So much so, the story could be half, maybe a third the length without it and you wouldn't bat an eye. The first time I came across a repeated paragraph I thought I'd just gone back to the top of the page instead of flicking to the next but the more I read, the more regularly such verbatim repetition occurred. One example of the many is when Enkidu is trying to convince Gilgamesh not to battle Humbaba in the Forest of Cedar:. Enkidu: "Humbaba, his voice is the Deluge, His speech is fire, his breath is death, He hears the forest murmur at sixty leagues' distance.
Who is there would venture into his forest? Adad ranks first, Humbaba second. Who is there would oppose him among the Igigi? So to keep safe the cedars, Enlil made his lot to terrify man; If you penetrate the forest you are seized by the tremors. In the space of 3 pages, this whole passage is repeated 3 times as Enkidu beseeches the town elders to dissuade Gilgamesh from fighting and then the Elders repeat Enkidu's sentiment verbatim. And, after all that, GMesh just ignores them anyway! Even worse is a huge passage explaining the ritual GMesh and Enkidu would perform every 3 nights on the way to the forest to provoke a dream.
The same passage is repeated 5 times with just the explanation of the 5 dreams often fragmentary due to missing or broken tablets separating it. You learn pretty quickly to skim over such mind-numbing repetition. Gilgamesh himself is a real piece of work. He's a Royal Rapist making a nuisance of himself at wedding banquets:. By divine consent it is so ordained: When his navel-cord was cut, for him she was destined. As I've since found out, this is referred to as Droit du seigneur 'lord's right' and was also common in medieval times. Call it what you will, he was still a rapist. He's a Sacred Cedar-Smiter , smiting the Cedar trees of the Guardian Humbaba's Ancient Forest after beheading the poor bugger with the encouragement of his step-bro Enkidu who was supposed to have been created as a companion to GMesh. An equal in strength but superior in moral fibre, designed to guide the King away from his tyrannical ways.
He originally advised against going to the forest but once there he totally got caught up in the moment pretty much peer-pressuring GMesh into lopping the dude's head off and then desecrating the sacred forest. A spurner of Goddesses , he's approached by the beautiful but petulant Goddess Ishtar who wishes to be his wife. She comes on hot and heavy in the same way she did with Ishullanu:. But Gmesh wasn't having a bar of the Gorgeous Goddess, being in the midst of a totally bro-tastic bromance and all, leading to persecution from the Pantheon! The story jumps from episode to episode but ultimately culminates, due to the unfortunate series of events following the spurning of Ishtar, in Gilgamesh's reflection on mortality, fear of death and subsequent Journey in search of immortality.
You can squint your eyes as tightly as possible or poke and prod the text looking for something profound but it's not there, in my opinion. If anything, it reads like a guide for Kings on how not to act when in power and a reminder of the importance of funerary rites and proper worshipping of the Gods. On top of this, it encourages one to accept their lot in life and enjoy it to the fullest, relinquishing vanity and taking pleasure in the company of family. Having said that, Gilgamesh was a demi-god and a powerful King, sort after by a beautiful Goddess, doesn't seem that hard a life to accept! I'm also hesitant to accept that he learned any lesson by the end of his journey other than that the search for immortality is futile. A positive to take away is the great degree of re-readability of the text given the regular discovery of new manuscripts the number has doubled over the past 70 years.
Maybe I'll come back to it in a couple of decades. The one who Gilgamesh seeks answers to the question of immortality from, Uta-Napishti , is essentially the Mesopotamian Noah as in Noah's Ark. This was written long before Noah was even a thought in anyone's mind. How cool is that! Can we just take a moment to admire Enkidu's sexual prowess as well as that of Shamhat the Harlot?! Btw, they went for another week after deciding to leave for Uruk. Surely friction burn becomes a concern! Shiduri, Goddess of Wisdom and Ale. I'm always telling my fiancé the two go hand in hand! Of the many pearls of wisdom that I've offered up over the years, I've always felt my best came after a couple of pints, cheers!
As one does in a level mythology course, I not only read the assigned prose version of Gilgamesh in the textbook, but also the scattered mess that is the translated tablets as contained in this Penguin Edition. Being a repenting academic sinner returning to the college fold, I may be leaning toward overzealousness just a whee bit — the other day, I actually caught myself wondering, even almost sorta fretting , about how I could manage to read both The Morte and all four volumes of The Once and Future King in time for the Arthurian Legends section of the course, a subject over which the entire assigned textbook reading is abooooouuuuut forty pages long. Anyway, I read the two versions of this guy, and I'm glad I did, as placing them side-by-side has definitely been The first thing I noticed was how much it's downplayed in cozy textbook versions that Gilgamesh, in his rowdy, youthful, being-up-to-no-good phase, made a sport of raping women.
Ha ha ha, taking women's virginities against their will in front of their husbands on their wedding nights, what a rascal! I swear that, aside from that one thing, he's a totally solid guy! The best! So, yeah, Gilgamesh, a. Rapeymess, gets his own bestie John the Savage — a guy named Enkidu who Gilgamesh respects since he not only almost kicks Gilgamesh's ass, but he murdered a fuckin' lion, y'all! Of course, in the prose version, Gilgamesh is really just painted as an asshole turned hero, and the friendship conveyed as completely platonic. Slight changes. Ever so slight changes. Another difference I noticed is that in the textbook version s , when Ishtar makes a move on Gilgamesh, he brings up that she's basically a praying mantis who bites the heads off her lovers, sort of like the ancient goddess version of Fester's wife in Addams Family Values.
In the tablets, however, it reads more like "naaaahh you're a whore. I don't like whores. There are many more such discrepancies, but it would be tedious to go through and list them all, or provide some snoozy summary of events. That would require a grade. Instead, I'll just point out that, between this and the Enuma Elish , I kinda can't wait to watch people maybe freak out about the fact that much of the Old Testament was essentially plagiarized from much older texts, which one assumes would nullify its authority as an "historical record," maybe causing some sort of Christian existential crisis, a crisis which will maybe be fascinating to witness in the online class format, meaning in frantic textspeak.
Oh, if you were wondering if kids these days say things like "lol" and "omg" in strictly graded forum posts, the answer is a vehement, flabbergasted yes , almost all of them. College is totally wasted on the young. Anyway, this should be fun. It's about this king, Gilgamesh, who's a dick. He's a terrible king, a total tyrant. His best buddy Enkidu, on the other hand, is your archetypical noble savage guy, an innocent wild man. Enkidu gets civilized via the traditional method of having a sex priestess fuck him fo. Enkidu gets civilized via the traditional method of having a sex priestess fuck him for a week straight, which totally works. And then they have adventures! There are lots of things in Gilgamesh that will pop up in books later.
There are a lot of weird echoes of it in the Bible. The flood myth is here, as it is in most cultures, and actually kindof a better version than the Bible's. There's a journey to the underworld, which will show up again in Homer and in Dante. There's a monster to fight, and - as in Beowulf - there's some ambiguity about how monstrous Humbaba is. He's just trying to do his thing, but Gilgamesh and Enkidu have to go hunt him down because they're such badasses. This arrogance will have terrible consequences for them. The influence on later literature isn't direct: we lost this poem for most of history.
It was only found again in the late s. So it's influence by way of echoes, if anything, although the Biblical references are hard to deny. There's an additional tablet XII, probably added later, that makes explicit the gay subtext running through the poem. Here's the translation from Stephen Mitchell:. Gilgamesh is more complicated than I expected it to be. It's dark, haunting, unsettling. The poet Rilke called it "The epic of the fear of death. It's weird and it's pretty wonderful. It's not terribly long, so it's not a huge commitment. I like Stephen Mitchell's version. But what may make this story unique—even among ancient works of literature—is that there is no single, complete copy of The Epic of Gilgamesh. Instead, the tale has been pieced together by scholars from a variety of fragments of clay tablets found throughout the Middle East since the s. There are several formal translations that attempt to translate every word from the overlapping sources, and to note all of the breaks and gaps.
Even these translations vary significantly, depending not just on stylistic differences of the various translators, but on which source they use as their primary text. For the formal version of The Epic of Gilgamesh , I read the Andrew George translation. The story is there, but it is not an easy read. Some of that difficulty is due to the gaps and the scholarly asides that pull the reader out of the story. But the formal translation also feels like an ancient story. It's a bit clunky and quite repetitive in lots of places. There are lots of descriptions of rituals throughout that seem unnecessarily long.
And the emotions displayed often feel less genuine and more performative, such as this quotation from shortly after Enkidu's death: "O Enkidu, may the paths [of] the Forest of Cedar mourn you [without pause,] by day and by night! In addition to the formal version, I also read Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative. Unlike the formal translations, this book attempts to capture the core story without being beholden to every repetition or gap. It reads more like one of the modern retellings of Beowulf. With many of the repetitions and scenes of rituals stripped away, there's a much greater focus on Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh's grief, and his feelings of loss and loneliness. There may be some poetic license taken in the verse narrative, but the core of the story not only remains, but is greatly enhanced by being much more personal and emotional:.
The Epic of Gilgamesh : 3. Gilgamesh: A Verse Narrative: 4. The Book Report : Evil King Gilgamesh is hatefully cruel to the citizens of Uruk, his kingdom. The gods, hearing the cries of his oppressed people, send Gilgamesh a companion, Enkidu. Yes, that's right, a man. Gilgamesh falls so in love with Enkidu, and has such big fun playing around and exploring the world and generally raising hell with Enkidu that his people are left alone to get on with whatever it was that they weren't al. whatever it was that they weren't allowed to do before. No one is allowed to be too happy for too long. Gilgamesh learns this when he royally screws up by refusing to screw goddess Ishtar because he's busy having fun with Enkidu. THEN the boys do the colossally stupid thing of stealing Ishtar's bull, and it's lights out for Enkidu. Gilgamesh's grief, to his peoples' relief, sends him on a quest for immortality. Which, frankly, makes not one whit of sense. Grief, in my extensive experience, makes one want oblivion, not eternity.
Well, whatever, not me writin' the story, so off goes Gilgamesh to have more adventures. My Review : A whole bunch of the Old Testament is lifted from this book. Amazingly whole and entire, too. Methuselah, Noah all here first. It's a slog to read, like the Bible, but it's fascinating if kept to smaller doses. I had no faith for it to rock, but it might rock a religious person's sacred book fantasy pretty hard. Highly instructive is the treatment of a strong love between men as perfectly boringly ordinary. No sexual component is implied in their relationship, but go find me a more loving relationship in sacred literature. Their closeness was so complete that it threatened the gods.
The men loved each other so completely that there was no room for gods, which pisses gods off somethin' fierce. After a period of competitive interactions, including wrestling matches, the king and tamed monster become bosom buddies and probably lovers. The goddess Ishtar takes a fancy to Enkidu, who rejects her advances and promises of heavenly rewards, backed up by the king heaping many insults on her head. In revenge, she gets the top gods to lend her the ferocious Bull of Heaven Peace to kill the king and his buddy.
A comic scene of their quick disposal of the beast ensues. Peace and justice begins to bloom in the kingdom. But Gilgamesh just has to express of superman role by finding a monster to slay. He persuades Enkidu to join him on a mission to kill the giant Humbaba, who has long been tasked by a god to guard a sacred cedar forest. Enkidu advises the king against such a foolish challenge, both from its danger and affront to the god. But his loyalty and love of the king leads him to buck but up his friend's courage and turn the battle into success at the point of disaster. This seals Enkidu's doom. When sickness and death is brought down on him, Gilgamesh's grief seems to hold no bounds, much in the vein of Achilles written 1, years later:. Then he veiled Enkidu's face like a bride's. Like an eagle Gilgamensh circled around him, he paced in front of him, back and forth, like a lioness whose cubs are trapped in a pit, he tore out clumps of his hair, tore off his magnificent robes as though they were cursed.
In his despair, Gilgamesh is tormented by intimations of his own mortality. He is driven to leave his kingdom on a long, perilous quest to find the one man the gods have blessed with immortality, Utnapishtim, and learn his secret for gaining that status. All he gets for his efforts is platitudes, a diversionary tale of Noah's Ark cribbed much later as a lesson for the Torah , and a special healing plant, which the king loses by neglect to a snake on the way back home. At the end, his arrival at the beautifully walled city of Uruk is described identical to the beginning verses of the epic.
This version of the tale was composed by Mitchell as a synthesis of prior translations and with invented insertions for all the missing sections lost among the collection of clay tablets inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform as discovered at the late date of in a dig at Ninevah. Half of the volume is a delightful commentary on the details of the epic and interpretations about their meanings and significance. Quite the eye-opener for me, having always presumed ancient tales to comprise very simplistic analogies about human nature and the conflicts between good and evil. A nice complement to similar conclusions reached from recent reads of the Iliad and Odyssey. A copy of an unknown work of Archimedes was found to have been scraped clean, cut in half, and made into a Bible. To think: a unique book of knowledge--one that outlined Calculus years before its time--was turned into a copy of the most common book in the world.
As a young man, Tolkien once gave a speech equating the linguistic shift brought on by the Normans as a sort of genocide, overlaying original languages with endless permutations of Rome. It is remarkable that, between accidents and purposeful destruction, some of our remote history has survived intact. Tolkien's own fictional Middle Earth is better documented than the entirety of the Dark Ages. Gilgamesh escaped total annihilation, though certainly did not survive unscathed. Buried beneath the desert sands for three thousand years, it was finally unearthed, opening a new world to us, a new history, a deeper root of literary tradition. The peculiarities of the writing and the culture are remarkable and enlightening. Far more remarkable are the similarities. The work is comprehensible, the character motivations sympathetic, and the philosophical explorations recognizable. If all the sciences are philosophy, all bent on exploring a vision of our world, then Gilgamesh is valuable to us because of the fundamental human similarities it depicts.
Descripción - Críticas 'Beautifully retold and a page-turner in the bargain. Like Seamus Heaney's recent retelling of Beowulf, this book proves that in the right hands, no great story ever grows stale. with startlingly familiar hopes, fears, and lusts. cracks open the lessons in Gilgamesh by rebuilding its clay fragments into a poem easy on the eyes and the transcultural imagination Vibrant, earnest, unfussily accessible The muscular eloquence and rousing simplicity of Mitchell's four-beat line effectively unleash the grand vehemence of the epic's battle scenes, and the characters' ominous visions emerge with uncanny clarity. offers a limpid retelling of this story about absolute power
Written byZLIBS Editors Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of ancient literature, telling the story of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, as he goes through adventures of self-discovery and battle. Translator Stephen Mitchell brings Gilgamesh to life in all its glory, providing cultural, spiritual, and historical context for the epic's events, making it all the more fascinating to read. Dating back a thousand years before the Iliad, Gilgamesh follows the King of Uruk as he fights monsters, ends wars with friendship, and even abandons quests. As Gilgamesh learns from his mistakes and grows from a young man into a fine king, the story gives a voice to the grief and fear of death. Gilgamesh is the first hero, and he experiences the world differently for that reason.
Capturing readers' hearts all over the world, Gilgamesh is a literary classic that's worth reading, and Stephen Mitchell's translation does a phenomenal job of capturing the voice of the original poem Home Classics General Fiction Gilgamesh: A New English Version. Gilgamesh: A New English Version PDF. Title Gilgamesh: A New English Version Author Stephen Mitchell Publisher Atria Books Category Classics General Fiction Poetry Released Date Language English Format EPUB Pages Total Downloads 18, Total Views 75, Rating 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star. Read Online. Summary Written byZLIBS Editors Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of ancient literature, telling the story of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, as he goes through adventures of self-discovery and battle.
Your review Optional. smiley 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star. alexandraseaha 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star. This story is really timeless and while it has a niche audience, I do recommend everyone reads at least part. It is, after all, the first poem in recorded history. It provided great insight into the human mind and society as it has been for thousands of years. It is rather confusing that this page displays reviews of multiple renderings and translations of the eipic. This review is of the version by David Ferry. It is hard to judge when I have not read any actual translations that do not attempt to reahape the text, only another interpretation by Stephen Mitchell. Similar Documents A New Hamlet Pages English Antigone: A New Translation Pages English The New Revelations: A Conversation with God Pages English Mastering English Articles A, AN, and THE: Learn to Use English Articles Correctly in Every English Sentence!
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