Sha naqba imuru
Anonymous / Stephen Mitchell
Overview
Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much 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. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the
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.
Other editions (14)
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吉尔伽美什史诗 商务印书馆 2024 -
吉尔伽美什史诗 商务印书馆 2021 -
The Epic of Gilgamesh W. W. Norton & Company 2019 -
吉尔伽美什 译林出版社 2018 -
吉尔伽美什 辽宁人民出版社 2015 -
Gilgamesh Atria Books 2006 -
Gilgamesh Free Press 2004 -
The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Classics 2003 -
The Epic of Gilgamesh W. W. Norton & Company 2001 -
The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Books 1999 -
吉尔伽美什 译林出版社 1999 -
Gilgamesh Farrar Straus Giroux 1993 -
吉尔伽美什 辽宁人民出版社 1981 -
The Epic of Gilgamesh Penguin Classics 1960