Male And Female In The Epic Of Gilgamesh

Author : Tzvi Abusch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575067186

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Male and Female in the Epic of Gilgamesh by Tzvi Abusch Pdf

The deeds and struggles of Gilgamesh, legendary king of the city-state Uruk in the land of Sumer, have fascinated readers for millennia. They are preserved primarily in the Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the most well-known pieces of Mesopotamian literature. Studying the text draws us into an orbit that is engaging and thrilling, for it is a work of fantasy and legend that addresses some of the very existential issues with which contemporary readers still grapple. We experience the excitement of trying to penetrate the mind-set of another civilization, an ancient one—in this instance, a civilization that ultimately gave rise to our own. The studies gathered here all demonstrate Tzvi Abusch’s approach to ancient literature: to make use of the tools of literary, structural, and critical analysis in service of exploring the personal and psychological dimensions of the narration. The author focuses especially on the encounters between males and females in the story. The essays are not only instructive for understanding the Epic of Gilgamesh, they also serve as exemplary studies of ancient literature with a view to investigating streams of commonality between ancient times and ours

Author : R. Campbell Thompson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1015427928

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The Epic of Gilgamish by R. Campbell Thompson Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Susan Ackerman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780231132602

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When Heroes Love by Susan Ackerman Pdf

Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King, Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, 'my friend whom I loved dearly'. This book examines the stories' sexual and homoerotic language and suggests that its ambiguity provides fresh ways of understanding ideas of gender and sexuality in the ancient Near East.

Author : Rivkah Harris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135395

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Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia by Rivkah Harris Pdf

Rivkah Harris’s cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach breaks new ground in assessing Mesopotamian attitudes toward youth and mature adulthood, aging and the elderly, generational conflict, gender differences in aging, relationships between men and women, women’s contributions to cultural activities, and the "ideal woman." To uncover Mesopotamian perspectives, Harris combed through primary sources - including literature and myth, letters, economic and legal texts, and visual materials. Even such pivotal cultural influences as the Gilgamesh Epic and Enuma Elish are reinterpreted in an original manner.

Author : Charles Halton,Saana Svärd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052055

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Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia by Charles Halton,Saana Svärd Pdf

This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : John R. Maier
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0865163391

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Gilgamesh by John R. Maier Pdf

The evolution of the Gilgamesh epic" (1982) / Jeffrey H. Tigay -- From "Gilgamesh in literature and art: the second and first millennia" (1987) / Wilfred G. Lambert -- From "Gilgamesh: sex, love and the ascent of knowledge" (1987) / Benjamin Foster -- "Images of women in the Gilgamesh epic" (1990) / Rivkah Harris -- "The marginalization of the goddesses" (1992) / Tikva Frymer-Kensky -- "Mourning the death of a friend: some assyriological notes" (1993) / Tzvi Abusch -- "Liminality, altered states, and the Gilgamesh epic" (1996) / Sara Mandell -- "Origins: new light on eschatology in Gilgamesh's mortuary journey" (1996) / Raymond J. Clark -- From "a Babylonian in Batavia: Mesopotamian literature and lore in The sunlight dialogues" (1982) / Greg Morris -- "Charles Olson and the poetic uses of Mesopotamian scholarship" / John Maier -- From "'Or also a godly singer, ' Akkadian and early Greek literature" (1984) / Walter Burkert -- From "Gilgamesh and Genesis" (1987) / David Damrosch -- "Praise for death" (1990) / Donald Hall -- From "Gilgamesh in the Arabian nights" (1991) / Stephanie Dalley -- "Ovid's Blanda voluptas and the humanization of Enkidu" (1991) / William L. Moran -- From "the Yahwist's primeval myth" (1992) / Bernard F. Batto -- "Gilgamesh and Philip Roth's Gil Gamesh" (1996) / Marianthe Colakis -- From "The epic of Gilgamesh" (1982) / J. Tracy Luke and Paul W. Pruyser -- From "Gilgamesh and the Sundance Kid: the myth of male friendship" (1987) / Dorothy Hammond and Alta Jablow -- "Gilgamesh and other epics" (1990) / Albert B. Lord -- From "Reaching for abroad: departures" (1991) / Eric J. Leed -- From "Introduction" to he who saw everything (1991) / Robert Temple -- "The oral aesthetic and the bicameral mind" (1991) / Carl Lindahl -- From "Point of view in anthropological discourse: the ethnographer as Gilgamesh" (1991) / Miles Richardson -- From "The wild man: the epic of Gilgamesh" (1992) / Thomas Van Nortwick.

Author : Alexander Heidel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226323986

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Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels by Alexander Heidel Pdf

Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. With the same careful scholarship shown in his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, Heidel interprets the famous Gilgamesh Epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas.

Author : Sophus Helle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780300251180

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Gilgamesh by Sophus Helle Pdf

A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace "Sophus Helle's new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read."--Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe "Looks to be the last word on this Babylonian masterpiece."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh's deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men; loss and grief; the confrontation with death; the destruction of nature; insomnia and restlessness; finding peace in one's community; the voice of women; the folly of gods, heroes, and monsters--and more. Millennia after its composition, Gilgamesh continues to speak to us in myriad ways. Translating directly from the Akkadian, Sophus Helle offers a literary translation that reproduces the original epic's poetic effects, including its succinct clarity and enchanting cadence. An introduction and five accompanying essays unpack the history and main themes of the epic, guiding readers to a deeper appreciation of this ancient masterpiece.

Author : Stephen Mitchell
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781847653833

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Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell Pdf

Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together. After Enkidu's death the distraught Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Great Flood, made immortal by the Gods to ask him the secret of life and death. Gilgamesh is the first and remains one of the most important works of world literature. Written in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C., it predates the Iliad by roughly 1,000 years. Gilgamesh is extraordinarily modern in its emotional power but also provides an insight into the values of an ancient culture and civilisation.

Author : Eric Quinn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781300957447

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Gilgamesh: The Ancient Epic, Tablets 1-4 by Eric Quinn Pdf

The world's oldest extended story, the Epic of Gilgamesh tells the adventures of the king of the ancient city, Uruk. Born more divine than human, Gilgamesh must accept his fate: he will die. To ease his isolation, the gods send him a companion, Enkidu, and together the two heroes undertake mighty deeds. Then Enkidu dies, and Gilgamesh abandons his royal duties and goes in search of eternal life. This volume tells the first third of the Epic, up until the heroes' arrival at the Cedar Mountain. This new edition, rendered into verse by Eric Quinn, fills in the gaps still remaining in the original materials and concentrates on telling the story as a story, while bringing out the Epic's hidden theme: the struggle between men and women for power. Full of astounding characters and situations, gripping in its intensity, this is a story not to be missed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1973-10-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141907185

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The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : A. R. George
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Epic of Gilgamesh
ISBN : 0199278423

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The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic by A. R. George Pdf

"The Babylonian Gilgamesh epic is the oldest long poem in the world, with a history going back four thousand years. It tells the fascinating and moving story of Gilgamesh's heroic deeds and lonely quest for immortality. This book collects for the first time all the known sources in the original cuneiform, including many fragments never published before. The author's personal study of every available fragment has produced a definitive edition and translation, complete with comprehensive introductory chapters that place the poem and its hero in context."--Publisher's description.

Author : Tzvi Abusch,John Huehnergard,Piotr Steinkeller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004369559

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Lingering over Words: Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Literature in Honor of William L. Moran by Tzvi Abusch,John Huehnergard,Piotr Steinkeller Pdf

Author : Katherine Callen King
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118293454

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Ancient Epic by Katherine Callen King Pdf

Ancient Epic offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to six of the greatest ancient epics – Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Vergil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, and Apollonius of Rhodes' Agonautica. Provides an accessible introduction to the ancient epic Offers interpretive analyses of poems within a comprehensive historical context Includes a detailed timeline, suggestions for further readings, and an appendix of the Olympian gods and their Akkadian counterparts

Author : Shauna Roberts
Publisher : Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 098251400X

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Like Mayflies in a Stream by Shauna Roberts Pdf

In the great city of Uruk, there is no peace when Gilgamesh is restless, and he is never at rest. Shamhat, a priestess of Inanna, goes into the wilderness to find and civilize a match for Uruk's violently active God-King. Like Mayflies in a Stream brings new life to the Epic of Gilgamesh, diving into one of the earliest conflicts between civilization and wilderness, civic order and freedom, romance and sexuality. A book of the Hadley Rille Books Archaeology Series.