The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh / David Damrosch.
2007
PJ3771.G6 D36 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh / David Damrosch.
Author
Damrosch, David.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780805080292
0805080295
0805080295
Imprint
New York : H. Holt, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xi, 315 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PJ3771.G6 D36 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
809/.93353
Summary
Composed 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 King Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid. This book begins with the rediscovery of the epic and its decipherment in 1872 by George Smith, a brilliant self-taught linguist, who created a sensation when he discovered Gilgamesh among thousands of undistinguished tablets in the British Museum. From there the story goes backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index.
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Table of Contents
The broken tablets
Early fame and sudden death
The lost library
The fortress and the museum
After Ashurbanipal, the deluge
At the limits of culture
The vanishing point.
Early fame and sudden death
The lost library
The fortress and the museum
After Ashurbanipal, the deluge
At the limits of culture
The vanishing point.