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,
“... BC, but its later role was similar to that of Latin in the Middle Ages. A school text quoted by Andrew George in his new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh makes a sardonic point about Sumerian and its importance: The door monitor said, ‘Why did you go out without my say-so?’ and he beat me. The water monitor said, ‘Why ... ”