Gilgamesh: A New English Version

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Simon and Schuster, 2004 - Fiction - 290 pages
An English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the king of Uruk, in an edition that includes an introduction that places the story in its historical and cultural context.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
ABOUT THIS VERSION
GILGAMESH
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Poet and writer Stephen Mitchell attended Amherst College, the Sorbonne, and Yale University. He has been training in Zen mediation for more than 25 years. His book, Real Power, uses ancient wisdom to study power, the key to business. Mitchell also translated the Tao Te Ching.

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