Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld and the Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle (Hardcover, Digital original)

Alhena Gadotti offers a much needed new edition of the Sumerian composition Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld, last published by Aaron Shaffer in his 1963 doctoral dissertation. Since then, several new manuscripts have come to light, prompting not only a new edition of the text, but also a re-examination of the composition. In this book, Gadotti argues that Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld was the first, not the last of the Sumerian stories about Gilgamesh. She also suggests that a Sumerian Gilgamesh Cycle, currently only attested in old Babylonian manuscripts (ca. 18th century BCE), was in fact developed during the Ur III period (ca. 2100-2000 BCE). Providing a new way to look at the Sumerian Gilgamesh stories, this book is relevant not only to scholars of the ancient Near East, but also to anyone interested in epic and epic cycle.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Untersuchungen Zur Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archaologie
Release date:	June 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Alhena Gadotti
Dimensions:	280 x 210mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	446
Edition:	Digital original
ISBN-13:	978-1-61451-708-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-61451-708-8
Barcode:	9781614517085

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