Whip, Spur and Lash
John Ray: The Epic of Gilgamesh, 2 September 1999
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation
by Andrew George.
Allen Lane, 225 pp., £20, March 1999,0 7139 9196 8 Show More
by Andrew George.
Allen Lane, 225 pp., £20, March 1999,
“... writing, originated in the south – the medium for writing, clay tablets impressed with a reed, is well-suited to a riverine culture – the prestige of Sumerian meant that it occupied a place in the national curriculum long after it had become extinct in speech. This may have happened around 2000 BC, but its later role was similar to that of Latin in ... ”