Gilgamesh
Reading List Year: 2023
Reading Order: Book 2
This is an ancillary book to the Great Book The Epic of Gilgamesh
Pages: 199
Suggested By: Will Childress
Translation by Stephen Mitchell
Version: Atria
Notes:
I started with the Stephen Mitchell translation to read the story straight through.My Thoughts
This was a fantastic starting point as I had never read The Epic of Gilgamesh before. This is a highly readable version (version as opposed to translation as Stephen Mitchell points out he did not translate it from the original Akkadian but pulled from existing English translations) and one that was easy on the eyes. The other two translations I read showed where tablets were broken and we are missing material, whereas this one read like a novel.
