Gilgamesh

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Call Number: 892.1 Gi
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	892.1 Gi	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	892.1 Gi	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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Five Stars submitted by Avliss on June 24, 2018, 4:38pm Let me say right off the bat that I enjoyed this read immensely. I love poetry in virtually all forms, and find epic poems like this especially fascinating. Mitchell’s translation flowed well, and in my opinion he did a fantastic job preserving poetic elements while still making it readable.

The story itself is engaging on several levels - as a straight-forward read, with little interpretation or analysis, it’s quite a fun trip. I found myself relating Enkidu and Gilgamesh’s adventures to several friends because I enjoyed it so much. But it’s also chock-full of interesting themes, symbols, and allegories, which better scholars than me are still wrestling with - death and man’s mortality is of course central to the plot, but I was also struck by the tension between civilisation and nature, which first crops up with the taming of Enkidu.

Not my favorite submitted by thesrays on August 25, 2019, 7:29pm While this is readable, Mitchell took too many liberties with the plotline for this to be a translation.