The Epic of Gilgamesh E-Book

Morris Jastrow

• Herausgeber: BertaBooks
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia. Dating from the Third Dynasty of Ur (circa 2100 BC), it is often regarded as the first great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for 'Gilgamesh'), king of Uruk. These independent stories were later used as source material for a combined epic.The story introduces Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Gilgamesh, two-thirds god and one-third man, is oppressing his people, who cry out to the gods for help. For the young women of Uruk this oppression takes the form of a droit du seigneur — or "lord's right"  to sleep with brides on their wedding night. For the young men (the tablet is damaged at this point) it is conjectured that Gilgamesh exhausts them through games, tests of strength, or perhaps forced labour on building projects...

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Epic of Gilgamesh

MORRIS JASTROW

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EPIC OF GILGAMESH

1920

Yale University Press

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

On the Basis of Recently Discovered Texts

Edited by

Morris Jastrow

(1861-1921)

Translated by

Albert T. Clay

(1866-1925)

Gilgamesh is the oldest work of literature. When we look for the beginning of mankind the path before us is silent, raw materials that are in the residential and cage culture , heritage and sank into silence, keeping a lot of time in five thousands years back to back. Gilgamesh is the oldest record of human thought. The time , which has been limited to the possibility of the appearance of the spread . But the invention of Gutenberg extended the cultural revolution.

EPIC OF GILGAMESH