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The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
?I am Gilgamesh who seized and killed the Bull of Heaven, I killed the watchman of the cedar forest, I overthrew Humbaba who lived in the forest? English version with an introduction by N. K. Sandars Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars
Category: Fiction
A great king, strong as the stars in Heaven . . . Enkidu, a wild and mighty hero, is created by the gods to challenge the arrogant King Gilgamesh. But instead of killing each other, the two become friends. Travelling together to the Cedar Forest, they fight and slay the evil monster Humbaba. But whe ...Show more
The Epic of Gilgamesh by N K Sandars, N. K. Sandars
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Andrew George's "masterly new translation" (The Times) of the world's first truly great work of literatureMiraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world's oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells ...Show more
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