The Blade of Gilgamesh

The Blade of Gilgamesh

Author: Jeff Edwards

Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1925283909

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Throughout the ages the possession of an unremarkable sword has seemingly been the magic that allowed dynasties to flourish. When a modern tyrant seeks to find the sword and use its power, The Fund find themselves in a race to locate this treasure and keep it safe from despotism.


Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels

Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels

Author: Alexander Heidel

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1949

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780226323985

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Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which were current among the ancient peoples of the Tigro-Euphrates Valley. With the same careful scholarship shown in his previous volume, The Babylonian Genesis, Heidel interprets the famous Gilgamesh Epic and other related Babylonian and Assyrian documents. He compares them with corresponding portions of the Old Testament in order to determine the inherent historical relationship of Hebrew and Mesopotamian ideas.


Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Author: David Ferry

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2014-11-11

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1466885025

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A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.


Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Author: Stephan Grundy

Publisher: The Three Little Sisters

Published: 2023-05-30

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1959350269

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Gilgamesh has been chosen to guide his kingdom in times of war and peace. His strength and courage are unsurpassed, yet his reckless heart threatens the land and the people who are dependent upon his sober, benevolent rule. He has spurned the gods with his arrogant refusal to take part in a sacred ritual. And they, in turn, have responded by creating one who is his equal - a beast-man, lord of his own feral domain - who will lead Gilgamesh on a remarkable quest of accomplishment and discovery, and hasten the destruction of a tragically flawed hero's realm and legend. Moving across a richly evoked Mesopotamian landscape and written in a style that brilliantly and faithfully recalls the great epics throughout history, Stephen Grundy's Gilgamesh is an extraordinary achievement: a sweeping saga of gods, magic, adventure, and poignantly imperfect humanity that is at once compelling, original, and relevant to any epoch.


The Narrow Corridor

The Narrow Corridor

Author: Daron Acemoglu

Publisher: Penguin Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0735224382

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How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.


The Reckoning

The Reckoning

Author: Kris Greene

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1429987014

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A young man discovers that it's his destiny to lead the war against the Darkness. Not much is left of Gabriel's life ever since he discovered his true destiny as a warrior knight in the final battle against darkness. His life has been rife with soul-sucking demons and creatures straight out of the books he studied in college. His life is no longer ordinary. As a warrior, he has no choice but to fight for good. And if he screws up, the world is toast... The war between good and evil has just been kicked up a notch for Gabriel Redfeather and his partner, the half Valkyrie, De Mona Sanchez. Gabriel is the only one who can stem the tide of darkness creeping across the land. But will he be able to do it without falling into darkness himself?


The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Author:

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1973-10-25

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0141907185

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Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a quest for eternal life. A timeless tale of morality, tragedy and pure adventure, The Epic of Gilgamesh is a landmark literary exploration of man's search for immortality.


Never Grow Old

Never Grow Old

Author: Brian Trent

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-05

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0595429831

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In the purple predawn of civilization before pyramids and coliseums, in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Gilgamesh is the king of Uruk, mightiest city in the fertile cresent. Enkidu is the creature of the wilderness, last of an ancient tribe now eclipsed into legend. Siduri is the mysterious outsider living in the fabled country called the Mouth of the Rivers. Together they tell a tale of friendship, of loss and of one of man's desperate quest for immortality.