Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, and although previously there have been competent scholarly translations of it, until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed translator Stephen Mitchell's lithe, muscular rendering allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is. His insightful introduction provides a historical, spiritual, and cultural context for this ancient epic, showing that Gilgamesh is more potent and fascinating than ever.
Gilgamesh dates from as early as 1700 BCE -- a thousand years before the Iliad. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tablets on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh, and the text was not deciphered and fully translated until the end of the century. When the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke first read Gilgamesh in 1916, he was awestruck. "Gilgamesh is stupendous," he wrote. "I consider it to be among the greatest things that can happen to a person."
The epic is the story of literature's first hero -- the king of Uruk in what is present-day Iraq -- and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city, that a preemptive attack on a monster can have dire consequences, and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned. In giving voice to grief and the fear of death -- perhaps more powerfully than any book written after it -- in portraying love and vulnerability and the ego's hopeless striving for immortality, the epic has become a personal testimony for millions of readers in dozens of languages.
第一次知道吉尔伽美什,还是因为fate系列那个金发作死傲娇“杂修”狂,那个时候觉得他好可爱,然后忍不住就开始搜集他的资料。最后就查到了《吉尔伽美什史诗》。 这部史诗不长,但是描述了一个人的成长史。从最开始的不成熟,到最后的贤王典范,吉尔伽美什一路转变。他年轻时的...
評分 評分“吉尔伽美什呦,你要流浪到哪里? 你所探求的生命将无处寻觅。 自从诸神把人创造, 就把死派定给人无疑, 生命就保留在他们自己的手里! …… …….” ——《吉尔伽美什》第十块泥板•三(B) 吉尔伽美什为大神阿鲁鲁所创造,他身世非凡、膂力过人、英姿绝伦,他“三分之二...
評分 評分上个再上个礼拜五听讲座的时候记下的一些笔记。最近期中考试,耽搁了没整理,差点荒芜了,还好还看得懂…… Epic of Gilgamesh的历史 古老的神话大部分都是集体创作的产物,Gilgamesh自然也不例外。 Gilgamesh诞生于公元前3000年左右的两河流域,比旧约(约公元前1500年)和伊...
金老師大一講的 期末考試還考瞭????
评分hmm可惜沒在教授講前兩章的時候換到課,故事挺有意思,用瞭一整晚看完。gilgamesh死的時候,能切身體會到enkidu的難過,這應該不能稱之為兄弟情瞭
评分這個作者的解說還是非常耽美傾嚮的……他自己也錶示瞭該書與其稱作translation不如更是吉爾伽美什故事一個闡釋【版本】。畢竟作者自己也不懂阿卡德語,一切隻是基於七學者的譯本整閤,加以自己的理解衍化成的通俗英語科普版。
评分The speaker of CrashCourse says what makes Gilgamesh truly heroic is his human limitations. But I guess not. Does the realization of unavoidable death really free him at the end of the story? ????
评分校圖書館居然有這本書我太驚訝瞭!該說這不愧是金閃閃麼,封麵好閃!
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