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The Buried Book - The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, First)
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The Buried Book - The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, First)
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List price R619
Loot Price R526
Discovery Miles 5 260
You Save R93 (15%)
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Adventurers, explorers, kings, gods, and goddesses come to life in
this "useful, entertaining and informative" story of the first
great epic ("The Washington Post") Composed in Middle Babylonia
around 1200 BCE, "The Epic of Gilgamesh "foreshadowed later stories
that would become as fundamental as any in human history: "The
Odyssey "and the Bible. But in 600 BCE, the clay tablets that bore
the story were lost to the world, buried beneath ashes and ruins.
David Damrosch begins with the rediscovery of the epic in 1872 and
from there goes backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself.
"The Buried Book "is an illuminating tale of history as it was
written, stolen, lost, and--after 2,000 years and countless
battles, conspiracies, and revelations--finally found.
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