Cover of The Epic of Gilgamesh

Book 2000

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Publisher
Penguin Classics
Language
English
Published
2000
  • Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Translations into English
  • Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian
  • Sumerian Epic poetry

THE Epic of Gilgamesh, the renowned king of Uruk in Mesopotamia, comes from an age which had been wholly forgotten, until in the last century archaeologists began uncovering the buried cities of the Middle East.