Write&Read

Tag: religion

  • The Epic of Gilgamesh

    —

    by

    Rodney Nelsestuen
    in

    I recently read The Epic of Gilgamesh, a story that predates Homer by 1500 years or more (Intro by NK Sandars in the Penguin Classics edition copyrighted 1972). The story was most likely a composite of decades, if not centuries, of oral storytelling which was finally written down (probably) first in Sumerian Cuneiform. Tablets were…