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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:David DamroschPublish date:2007-12-26Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805087253ISBN-10:805087257UPC:9780805087253Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCEEVB2A40

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Holt PaperbacksISBN-13:9780805087253ISBN-10:805087257UPC:9780805087253Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient and ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCEEVB2A40

David Damrosch is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the general editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature and the founding general editor of The Longman Anthology of British Literature. He lives in New York City.


Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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David Damrosch

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