Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, "The Epic of Gilgamesh" is a landmark literary exploration of man's search for immortality.
Lying on the bed, I found myself falling into insomnia. Images of childhood kept emerging from my head, still vivid, just like what happened yesterday. Yet the fragments stay only in memory. Reaching out my hands, I could never grasp any piece of the past i...
評分 評分I used to hold the opinion that reading an epic poem may be a hard thing for me and the epic poem is always very long and dull, however, after I read this small book The epic of Gilgamesh, I found that reading a epic poem is not as hard as I thought, on...
評分I used to hold the opinion that reading an epic poem may be a hard thing for me and the epic poem is always very long and dull, however, after I read this small book The epic of Gilgamesh, I found that reading a epic poem is not as hard as I thought, on...
評分多麼希望國內有這個版本的全譯本……
评分not that good translator
评分已知的最早史詩,其中不少情節給後世神話傳說和文學作品奠下瞭模式。新版封麵換成瞭石碑上的浮雕:吉爾伽美什站在兩個半人半獸的半神中間,頭頂上是他們擎著的太陽。
评分There is no permanence.
评分nature vs. human
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