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Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian --- History and criticism --- Gilgamesh --- -Assyro-Babylonian epic poetry --- Assyro-Babylonian poetry --- History and criticism. --- Gilgamesh. --- -History and criticism --- Assyro-Babylonian epic poetry --- Epic of Gilgamesh --- Ghilgameš --- Gilgamesch --- Gilgamesz --- Gilgāmish --- Guilgamesh --- Ishtar and Izdubar --- Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian epic) --- Izdubar --- Jiljāmish --- Kilkāmish --- Sha naqba imura --- Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian - History and criticism

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The world's oldest work of literature, the Epic of Gilgamesh recounts the adventures of the semimythical Sumerian king of Uruk and his ultimately futile quest for immortality after the death of his friend and companion, Enkidu, a wildman sent by the gods. Gilgamesh was deified by the Sumerians around 2500 BCE, and his tale as we know it today was codified in cuneiform tablets around 1750 BCE and continued to influence ancient cultures-whether in specific incidents like a world-consuming flood or in its quest structure-into Roman times. The epic was, however, largely forgotten, until the cuneiform tablets were rediscovered in 1872 in the British Museum's collection of recently unearthed Mesopotamian artifacts. In the decades that followed its translation into modern languages, the Epic of Gilgamesh has become a point of reference throughout Western culture.In Gilgamesh among Us, Theodore Ziolkowski explores the surprising legacy of the poem and its hero, as well as the epic's continuing influence in modern letters and arts. This influence extends from Carl Gustav Jung and Rainer Maria Rilke's early embrace of the epic's significance-"Gilgamesh is tremendous!" Rilke wrote to his publisher's wife after reading it-to its appropriation since World War II in contexts as disparate as operas and paintings, the poetry of Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky, novels by John Gardner and Philip Roth, and episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Xena: Warrior Princess.Ziolkowski sees fascination with Gilgamesh as a reflection of eternal spiritual values-love, friendship, courage, and the fear and acceptance of death. Noted writers, musicians, and artists from Sweden to Spain, from the United States to Australia, have adapted the story in ways that meet the social and artistic trends of the times. The spirit of this capacious hero has absorbed the losses felt in the immediate postwar period and been infused with the excitement and optimism of movements for gay rights, feminism, and environmental consciousness. Gilgamesh is at once a seismograph of shifts in Western history and culture and a testament to the verities and values of the ancient epic.

Assyro-Babylonian literature. --- Ancient History & Classical Studies. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- Akkadian literature --- Babylonian literature --- Gilgamesh --- Gilgamesh. --- Epic of Gilgamesh --- Ghilgameš --- Gilgamesch --- Gilgamesz --- Gilgāmish --- Guilgamesh --- Ishtar and Izdubar --- Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian epic) --- Izdubar --- Jiljāmish --- Kilkāmish --- Sha naqba imura --- Influence. --- Adaptations.

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"This collection of articles has two aims: The first is to create a comprehensive compendium of iconography on Gilgamesh, that includes three formerly published and several new papers on the visual representation of Gilgamesh. The second is to publish some objects of Near Eastern art from the Bible+Orient Collection in Fribourg, which relate to Gilgamesh."--Summary.

Gilgamesh (Legendary character) --- Art, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Art. --- Gilgamesh --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Art, Assyro-Babylonian --- 892.1 --- 73.046 --- 82:7 --- 82:7 Literatuur en kunst --- Literatuur en kunst --- 73.046 Mythologie; religie; epiek in de beeldhouwkunst --- Mythologie; religie; epiek in de beeldhouwkunst --- 892.1 Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- Akkadische, Sumerische literatuur --- Art, Babylonian --- Assyro-Babylonian art --- Babylonian art --- Epic of Gilgamesh --- Ghilgameš --- Gilgamesch --- Gilgamesz --- Gilgāmish --- Guilgamesh --- Ishtar and Izdubar --- Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian epic) --- Izdubar --- Jiljāmish --- Kilkāmish --- Sha naqba imura

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It is widely recognised that the epics of Homer are closely related to the earlier mythology and literature of the Ancient Near East, above all the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. But how should this influence our response to the meaning and message of either poem? This book responds to this question through an experiment in intertextual reading. It begins by exploring Gilgamesh as a work of literature in its own right, and uses this interpretation as the springboard for a new reading of the Homeric epic, emphasising the movement within the poem - beginning from a world of heroic action and external violence, but shifting inwards to the thoughts and feelings of Achilles as he responds to the certainty that his own death will follow that of his best friend. The book will be of interest both to specialists and to those coming to ancient literature for the first time.

Homer. --- Achilles --- Gilgamesh --- In literature. --- Gilgamesh. --- Literature. --- Achilles, --- Gilgamesh, --- Iliad (Homer). --- Achìe --- Achilas --- Achille --- Achilleus --- Achilli --- Ahil --- Ahile --- Ahilej --- Ahillejs --- Aĥilo --- Aichill --- Akhilles --- Akhilleus --- Akhilleusz --- Akiles --- Akili --- Akille --- Akilles --- Akkilles --- Aquiles --- Aquilles --- Axill --- Axilles --- Ἀχιλλεύς --- آخيل --- アキレウス --- Akireusu --- 아킬레우스 --- 阿喀琉斯 --- Ахіл --- Ахил --- Ахилл --- Akhill --- Ахіллес --- אכילס --- Akhiles --- Homer --- Epic of Gilgamesh --- Ghilgameš --- Gilgamesch --- Gilgamesz --- Gilgāmish --- Guilgamesh --- Ishtar and Izdubar --- Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian epic) --- Izdubar --- Jiljāmish --- Kilkāmish --- Sha naqba imura

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Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian --- Poésie épique assyro-babylonienne --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Gilgamesh. --- History and criticism --- Gilgamesh --- 892.11 --- -Assyro-Babylonian epic poetry --- Assyro-Babylonian poetry --- Babylonische literatuur --- -Babylonische literatuur --- 892.11 Babylonische literatuur --- -892.11 Babylonische literatuur --- Assyro-Babylonian epic poetry --- Poésie épique assyro-babylonienne --- Epic of Gilgamesh --- Ghilgameš --- Gilgamesch --- Gilgamesz --- Gilgāmish --- Guilgamesh --- Ishtar and Izdubar --- Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian epic) --- Izdubar --- Jiljāmish --- Kilkāmish --- Sha naqba imura --- Epic poetry [Assyro-Babylonian ] --- Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian - History and criticism