《The Epic of Gilgamesh》是2003年Penguin Classics出版的圖書，作者是Anonymous。
基本介紹
- 中文名：The Epic of Gilgamesh
- 作者：Anonymous
- 譯者：Andrew George
- 出版社：Penguin Classics
- 出版時間：2003年4月29日
- 頁數：304 頁
- 裝幀：Paperback
- ISBN：9780140449198
內容簡介
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as far as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh.s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. In addition to its themes of family, friendship and duties of kings, The Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind's eternal struggle with the fear of death.
The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian. Andrew George's gripping translation brilliantly combines these into a fluent narrative and will long rank as the definitive English Gilgamesh.
