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1+ YearsPublisher | Penguin UK |
ISBN 13 | 9780140441000 |
ISBN 10 | 014044100X |
Book Description | N. K. Sandars's landmark translation of one of the first and greatest works of Western literatureA Penguin ClassicGilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literatur |
About the Author | N. K. Sandarsstudied, soon after the war, with Professor Gordon Childe at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London, and took the diploma of the Institute. She continued to work at Oxford, taking a B.Litt. degree in the prehistory of Europe, and thereafter she worked on the prehistory of the Aegean, receiving a studentship at St. Hughs College, Oxford, a scholarship from Oxford University and a travelling prize from the University of Liverpool. She has travelled extensively in Europe and in the Near and Middle East, and has taken part in excavations in the British Isles and overseas. She has contributed article to various journals and is the author ofBronze Age Cultures in France,Prehistoric Art in Europe,Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia, andThe Sea Peoples. She is a fellow the British Academy and of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute. |
Language | English |
Author | Nancy Sandars |
Language | English |
Publication Date | 3/31/1970 |
Number of Pages | 128.0 |
The Epic of Gilgamesh