Gilgamesh: A Verse NarrativeThe most widely read and enduring interpretation of the classic Babylonian epic. |
Contents
A Verse Narrative | 9 |
Names and Places Appearing in the Narrative | 93 |
About the Gilgamesh | 95 |
An Autobiographical Postscript | 105 |
Afterword | 115 |
Afterword to the Mariner Edition | 125 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afraid Albert Lord ancient Near East Ancient Near Eastern animals Autobiographical Postscript Babylonian Biblical boatman Bull of Heaven called cedar creatures cried darkness dead dreams Enlil Epic of Gilgamesh eternal eyes face fear felt flood forest gamesh Gilga GILGAMESH A VERSE Gilgamesh and Enkidu Gilgamesh Epic Gilgamesh looked Gilgamesh story goddess gods grief hand heard Herbert Mason human Hurrian immortality Ishtar journey King List knew known learned listened lived loneliness loss lost Louis Massignon Massignon Mesopotamia mountain never night Nineveh Ninsun pain plant prostitute reached retelling scholars sea of death seemed Shamash shore Siduri sleep someone sound spirit spoke Steppe stones stood Sumerian king Sumerian King List Sumerian Mythology tablets Tell texts things Thorkild Jacobsen thou thought tiredness told touch translation trees tried understand Urshanabi Utnapishtim raised VERSE NARRATIVE voice wife wisdom wound yearn