Gilgamesh: A New English Version - Stephen Mitchell
Category: Classic
Narrator: George Guidall
Tags: Classic, Adults, Literature
Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins Release date: 11-11-04 Publisher: Recorded Books, Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although previously there have been competent scholarly translations of it, until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed translator Stephen Mitchells lithe, muscular rendering allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is., 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 literatures first hero the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can
