Epic of Gilgamesh by John D Harris
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest written chronicle in the world, composed three to four thousand years before Christ. It tells events in the life of a king in an ancient city of Mesopotamia. The text is revered, and the hero is an icon of Mesopotamia, equal in tradition to the Jewish hero David as told in the Bible or the Greek hero Achilles as told in the Iliad, both of which it precedes as literature and in some aspects it anticipates. For untold centuries, even into the last millennium before Christ, the children of what is now Iraq learned to read and write by copying Gilgamesh, just as once Greek children learned to read and write by copying the Iliad and just as before the 20th century in Europe and America children learned to read and write from the text of the Bible. References to Gilgamesh in daily speech were commonplace. The Epic of Gilgamesh is called an| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781718018310 |
| ISBN 10 | 1718018312 |
| Title | Epic of Gilgamesh |
| Author | John D Harris |
| Series | Classics Of Literature Retold |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Independently Published |
| Year published | 2018-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 196 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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