In search of Gilgamesh, the epic hero of ancient Babylonia, by Michael Dirda, review of The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery Of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, by David Damrosch, Washington Post, March 4, 2007, p. BW10
(via Arts & Letters Daily)
The Iraq War, 2500 B.C., by Joy Connolly, The New York Times, December 5, 2004, review of Gilgamesh: A New English Version, by Stephen Mitchell
Carved in Stone, by Steven Moore, Washington Post, November 14, 2004, review of Gilgamesh: A New English Version, by Stephen Mitchell, and Gilgamesh, by Derrek Hines
One reason why The Epic of Gilgamesh still has great power to move us is a poetic style that does not depend on elements like rhyme or meter but on rhetorical devices, parallelism and antithesis, and the antiphonal organization of short and long phrases, all of which are translatable and which are worked into emotive patterns in the originals with consummate skill.
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