Gilgamesh
About this book
"Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE - a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century." "The epic is the story of literature's first hero - the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq - and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city, that a preemptive attack on a monster can have dire consequences, and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned."--BOOK JACKET.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 62 readers · 304 pages · ≈ 5 h 38 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Gilgamesh?
About ≈ 5 h 38 m — 304 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Gilgamesh?
304 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Gilgamesh?
It sits on the Poetry, Adventure, History shelves.
Is Gilgamesh in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Gilgamesh?
Stephen Mitchell.