Gilgamesh

Stephen Mitchell

earliest edition we have, 2004 Profile Books Ltd, 2004 hardcover 304 pages

"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." "The epic is the story of literature's first hero - the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq - and his journey of se...

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Editions we hold

Gilgamesh edition · 2010 · Free Press · 304 pages · 9781439104743
Gilgamesh audiobook · 2008 · Recorded Books · 9781436132411
Gilgamesh paperback · 2006 · Free Press · 304 pages · 9780743261692
Gilgamesh paperback · 2005 · Profile Books · 304 pages · 9781861977984
Gilgamesh audiobook · 2004 · Recorded Books · 9781419305405
Gilgamesh hardcover · 2004 · Free Press · 304 pages
Gilgamesh hardcover · 2004 · Profile Books Ltd · 304 pages · 9781861977182
Gilgamesh audiobook · 2004 · Recorded Books · 9781402597664
Gilgamesh hardcover · 2004 · Profile Books Ltd · 304 pages

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