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David Damrosch

The Buried Book

The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

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Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in this riveting story of the first great epic-lost to the world for 2,000 years, and rediscovered in the nineteenth centuryComposed by a poet and priest in Middle Babylonia around 1200 bce, The Epic of Gilgamesh foreshadowed later stories that would become as fundamental as any in human history, The Odyssey and the Bible. But in 600 bce, the clay tablets that bore the story were lost-buried beneath ashes and ruins when the library of the wild king Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid.The Buried Book begins with the rediscovery of the epic and its deciphering in 1872 by George Smith… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4299-2389-7
  • EAN: 9781429923897
  • Produktnummer: 22468266
  • Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 336 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 3'704 KB
  • Auflage: First Edition
  • Abbildungen: Includes more than twenty pictures throughout

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