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The Epic of Gilgamesh

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Start date: May 14, 2021

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May 18, 2012 Christine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: work, myth-and-lore-middle-east

It’s an ancient text so characterization and what not is vastly not what a modern reader is use to. That said, it is worth a read, and can be read rather quickly. Sanders seems to be correct because a reader who is familiar with the epics and heroes that come after can see the root here. It is, in some ways, the first gay love story. (Yes, I know that it is a misreading, but honesty, I can see it).

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Mar 06, 2012 Katy rated it liked it

Okay, first off the translator of this epic really makes a difference!
I read the translation by N. K. Sandars and one by Danny P. Jackson.
Mr. Jackson's version is a bit too modern in speech and R-rated for rude and crude.
I much preferred the Sandars version, although written in prose instead of in verse. ...more

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Apr 18, 2018 Melanti rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2018, fairy-tales-folklore-and-mythology, illustrated, poetry, classics, anthology, intotheforest-2018

I read this once, years ago, with the Sandars' prose translation, and this time around I decided to try a poetic translation.

Unforunately, this particular edition is too academic for my tastes. George used brackets to set apart any bit of text that was missing from the original tablets but that he was able to infer from either repetition or other sources, and ellipses to indicate missing text he wasn't able to fill in.

This is the approach that I really enjoyed in If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sa ...more

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