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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)
Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of des...Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of destinies, together they decree the fates of men. Life and death they allot but the day of death they do not disclose.'”
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A remarkable human intellectual artifact of which significant historical values, life and death philosophy, a pre-abrahamic account of the deluge and Sumerian mythology are consisted The Epic of Gilga...A remarkable human intellectual artifact of which significant historical values, life and death philosophy, a pre-abrahamic account of the deluge and Sumerian mythology are consisted The Epic of Gilgamesh is. (展开)
Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of des...Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of destinies, together they decree the fates of men. Life and death they allot but the day of death they do not disclose.'”
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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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0 有用 姹姹姹姹姹 2022-01-29 01:27:32
Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of des... Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of destinies, together they decree the fates of men. Life and death they allot but the day of death they do not disclose.'” (展开)
0 有用 Binn 2009-01-30 18:13:01
nature vs. human
0 有用 tooblue 2010-09-01 14:41:36
not that good translator
0 有用 - 2015-03-13 18:51:49
There is no permanence.
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 榴莲妹妹 2023-01-31 10:55:26 美国
Humbaba死亡前是蛮感人的，一种巨星陨落的绝望和唏嘘。文本展现了人性与神性的对抗和纠缠，Gilgamesh半人半神的设定让我感叹古人的智慧，在人类生命遇到恐惧与虚无的时候，人们喜欢有一个万能的神来替我们做决定，愿意把自己的命运交给神明的手中。但是一味的逃避是无用的，结局也表明了，人类还是要面对死亡，承受虚无。
0 有用 Hypnus 2022-11-27 23:54:12 美国
譯本是以散文的形式，大大降低了閱讀難度。這部幾乎是現存最早的文學作品，情節上有許多不明所以，但反過來也增加了一絲神秘感。驚歎文明之初人們已經開始思考人面對死亡的無力感。還有值得一提的是這部作品也反映出人類各種文明的發源總有著千絲萬縷的聯繫，裡面關於洪水的故事和後來的舊約諾亞方舟是多麼的相似，裡面的神祇有時喜怒不定也與舊約如出一轍
0 有用 p424d0x 2022-05-29 00:57:08
A remarkable human intellectual artifact of which significant historical values, life and death philosophy, a pre-abrahamic account of the deluge and Sumerian mythology are consisted The Epic of Gilga... A remarkable human intellectual artifact of which significant historical values, life and death philosophy, a pre-abrahamic account of the deluge and Sumerian mythology are consisted The Epic of Gilgamesh is. (展开)
0 有用 姹姹姹姹姹 2022-01-29 01:27:32
Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of des... Maureen Gallery Kovacs和N.K. Sandras两个译本，“They established Death and Life,but they did not make known 'the days of death'"；“ When the Anunnaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun the mother of destinies, together they decree the fates of men. Life and death they allot but the day of death they do not disclose.'” (展开)
0 有用 跳跃之巫师 2021-11-06 10:29:33
感觉古书和现代小说的区别好大啊，这本书写的好简略，好多困难，煎熬，长时间的努力都一笔带过，人物/神做决定的好多动机都没有写，留给读者脑补