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The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh
- Title
- The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh / David Damrosch.
- Author
- Damrosch, David.
- Publication
- New York : H. Holt, 2007.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xi, 315 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Composed by a poet and priest 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--buried beneath ashes and ruins when the library of King Ashurbanipal was sacked in a raid. This book begins with the rediscovery of the epic and its decipherment in 1872 by George Smith, a brilliant self-taught linguist, who created a sensation when he discovered Gilgamesh among thousands of undistinguished tablets in the British Museum. From there the story goes backward in time, all the way to Gilgamesh himself.--From publisher description.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index.
- Contents
- The broken tablets -- Early fame and sudden death -- The lost library -- The fortress and the museum -- After Ashurbanipal, the deluge -- At the limits of culture -- The vanishing point.
- Call Number
- *OCY 07-1061
- ISBN
- 0805080295
- 9780805080292
- LCCN
- 2006049523
- OCLC
- 70230776
- Author
- Damrosch, David.
- Title
- The buried book : the loss and rediscovery of the great Epic of Gilgamesh / David Damrosch.
- Imprint
- New York : H. Holt, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-293) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- *OCY 07-1061