The Epic of Gilgamesh

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The longing stretch toward the infinite . . . the reluctant embody of the temporal. . . . That is the eternal lot of mankind. That is The Epic of Gilgamesh. Literature’s first chronicle of seek for that means used to be born within the Cradle of Civilization over 4,000 years ago. Jackson’s poetic rendition of humanity’s first epic captures the eagerness and pathos of the seek for the province and parameters of human existence, together with an account of a perfect flood, paradise lost, man’s relationship with gods and goddesses, and the inevitability of mortality. The universal themes explored in Gilgamesh continue to intrigue us within the twentieth century.

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