The Epic of Gilgamesh -  UNKNOWN

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Buch | Softcover
80 Seiten
2006
Penguin USA (Verlag)
978-0-14-102628-2 (ISBN)
11,90 inkl. MwSt
Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But, instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But, when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh.
A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven...

Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends.

Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But when Enkidu is killed, his death haunts and breaks the mighty Gilgamesh. Terrified of mortality, he resolves to find the secret of eternal life...

N. K. Sandars studied, soon after the war, with Professor Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, and took the diploma of the Institute. She continued to work at Oxford, taking a B.Litt. degree in the prehistory of Europe, and thereafter she worked on the prehistory of the Aegean, receiving a studentship at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, a scholarship from Oxford University and a travelling prize from the University of Liverpool. She has travelled extensively in Europe and in the Near and Middle East, and has taken part in excavations in the British Isles and overseas. She has contributed article to various journals and is the author of Bronze Age Cultures in France, Prehistoric Art in Europe, Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, and The Sea Peoples. She is a fellow the British Academy and of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.12.2006
Reihe/Serie Penguin Epics ; Vol.1
Sprache englisch
Maße 111 x 181 mm
Gewicht 52 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10 0-14-102628-6 / 0141026286
ISBN-13 978-0-14-102628-2 / 9780141026282
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