- Gilgamesh, Epic poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Translations into English
"Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE - a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century."
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Earnest, grave, epic and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- RB Large Print, Profile Books, Recorded Books
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781402597664
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