The Epic of Gilgamesh
Jackson, Danny P. (verse rendition)
Language: English
Published by Bolchazy Carducci Pub, Wauconda, Illinois, U.S.A., 1992
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- Title
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Author
- Jackson, Danny P. (verse rendition)
- Publisher
- Bolchazy Carducci Pub, Wauconda, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0865162506
- ISBN 13
- 9780865162501
- Illustrator
- Kapheim, Thom
- Seller catalogs
- Literature, Poetry
The work is not only a historical landmark, but a literary and philosophical one as well. A great flood, paradise lost and a quest for immortality figure prominently in the text, marking it as the first of the mythological parallels to the Bible. Versions of the story made their way into many cultures throughout the ancient world and its universal themes are issues which continue to preoccupy you and me.
The tale follows Gilgamesh the king as he is transformed from a powerful and arrogant ruler to a man who has been forced by the realities of life to confront and accept his own mortality. It is a compelling tale, filled with drama, passion and pathos.
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Review
work accessible to college and general readers. -- --Kevin Herbert Professor of Classics Washington University
I welcome this edition of The Epic of Gilgamesh for making
accessible to modern readers the poetry and the drama, presented in heroic
terms of life, love, friendship and, finally the recognition and acceptance
of the ultimate reality of human existence. It is one of the great epic
tales surviving from the ancient world of "The Land
Between-the-Two-Rivers," Mesopotamia, and though incomplete, reflects an
ancient range of human experience and emotion not so far removed from our
own...
The epic states, "When the gods created mankind, they allotted death to
mankind, keeping life eternal for themselves."? Yet while death is
inevitable, Jackson's lyrical and moving presentation gives renewed life to
this wonderful tale of Gilgamesh. -- --Robert D. Biggs The Oriental Institute The University of Chicago
The Great Books Foundation has declared The Epic of Gilgamesh a
classic...The Bolchazy-Carducci edition has been adopted by Great Books
Foundation.
Gilgamesh permits us to tie the ancient Near East and the ancient
Mediterranean together like nothing else: no other document makes so clear
the symbolism of the snake or the divine bull, or the situation of temple
prostitution, or even the background of Plato's Aphrodite Pandemos and
Aphrodite Ourania. They are all here in Gilgamesh, plain as day. These
unifying tie-ins make it logical to use Gilgamesh as a lead-off text in a
classical mythology course.
The Bolchazy-Carducci edition, more readable than its predecessors, makes
it practicable. Students liked it, and for the professor it is one light
bulb after another. -- --Thomas N. Winter University of Nebraska
The text is excellent in its clarity of story line and motif. -- --Jim Caputo Instructor of English, Latin, Humanities Regis University
With Kapheim's remarkable woodcuts that go so well with Jackson's
powerful poetry, and with Biggs' excellent introduction, including those
fascinating photos of cuneiform tablets, ziggurats, and cylinder seals, the
paperback is a steal... It should be an ideal textbook for a college (or
high school) course in mythology or epic literature... -- --Anne Groton and Jim May St. Olaf's College
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