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Anonymous 出版社: Penguin Classics 副标题: An English Verison with an Introduction 译者:
N. K. Sandars 出版年: 1960-12-30 页数: 128 定价: USD 11.00 装帧: Paperback 丛书:Penguin Classics ISBN: 9780140441000
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 ...
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.
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Why does Gilgamesh not eat the plant at once and so regain his youth? Is it because of an altruistic desire to share it with his people and give the old man back their youthful strength? Is this just another trick of the gods? I do not think it is, nor that Gilgamesh is continually cheated of an almost attained immortality; but rather that the purpose of each of these incidents is cumulative, and is aimed at breaking down his refusal to accept human destiny. Gilgamesh's search was not for any eternal renewal of nature, such as the goddess Ishtar might have given, nor for the mere escape from old age into a life of ease and idleness, such as Utnapishtim had been granted; but much more an earthly immortality with its opportunity for heroic action, and for glory on the earth like that of the ... (查看原文)
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...
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The innate repetitiveness renders this work somewhat bland, though to its defense the translator did mention in foreword the importance of mimicking the rhythm in which the original epic was conveyed through oral recitation, and that the amount of iteration...
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Gilgamesh was the priest-king of ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk. He used to be a tyrant and his people were suffering and complaining. Therefore, Anu created Enkidu to have a fight with him but after the fight, they became very close. In order to ...
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How do I define the great disparity between classes in the history of Babylonia. First of all, I would like to take the code of Hammurabi as the breakthrough point. The prologue to the code of Hammurabi states that one of the purposes of the code is...
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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...
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When we are reading the epic of Gilgamesh, we can’t help noticing this significant character, Enkidu. As the best friend of Gilgamesh and the second leading character of this masterwork, what on earth does he bring to Gilgamesh? Here are some of my opini...
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Freja
likaiboy
清水沈虑
Randa
人间惆怅客。
人间四月天
教授不擅飞行
0 有用 Binn 2009-01-30 18:13:01
nature vs. human
0 有用 春日球 2012-03-15 00:11:46
。。。这封面第一个想到的是“左手一只鸡右手一只鸭”…………可惜不是楔英对照的【喂！
0 有用 Veronica 2010-06-03 11:30:30
记得这是两河流域啊啊啊啊！！！！
0 有用 子陵 2009-07-25 01:17:09
巴比倫史詩《The Epic of Gilgamesh》的英譯散文版本，薄薄一冊，挺易讀的，是認識這首偉大史詩的入門書籍。
0 有用 - 2015-03-13 18:51:49
There is no permanence.