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Aydin
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oh goodreads does NOT support me adding two editions of The Epic of Gilgamesh to my "currently reading" simultaneously. admin note to self that I am starting Xist Publishing's Epic of Gilgamesh (978-1-62395-941-8) on hoopla, which does not appear to be a translation of the poem but we'll see
— May 28, 2023 10:06AM
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Aydin
is on page 37 of 72
ok it was a transliteration, line-by-line translation, and commentary of the Pennsylvania and Yale tablets from Babylonian by Albert T. Clay and Morris Jastrow Jr with very fun notes about the twin-ism of Gilgamesh & Enkidu
— May 28, 2023 11:13AM
Aydin
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"'O my brother, so dear as you are to me, brother, yet they will take me from you. I must sit down on the threshold of the dead and never again will I see my dear brother with my eyes.'" what the fuck "So Gilgamesh laid a veil, as one veils the bride, over his friend." what the fuck
— May 24, 2023 09:30PM
Aydin
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This translation (NK Sandars 1960) SPEEDS through the first four tablets but is SO romantic. ‘Mother, last night I had a dream. I was full of joy, and I walked through the night under the stars of the firmament, and a meteor fell down from heaven.' ‘This star of heaven which descended like a meteor from the sky; when you see him you will be glad; you will love him as a woman and he will never forsake you.' whatthefuc
— May 10, 2023 06:10PM
