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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The Gilgamesh epic is one of the world's oldest and most important legends. Gilgamesh is a terrible tyrant. When he orders his subjects to build a great wall, the exhausted people are in despair. But the evil king meets the 'uncivilized' Enkidu, and learns lessons of friendship and true humanity that will change him forever"--Cover.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While striving to kill Humbaba, the monster who has attacked the city of Uruk, Gilgamesh spurns the advances of the goddess Ishtar, prompting her revenge, in a retelling of an episode from the story of Gilgamesh, the world's oldest legend.
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Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A retelling, based on seventh-century B.C. Assyrian clay tablets, of the wanderings and adventures of the god king, Gilgamesh, who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia (now Iraq) in about 2700 B.C., and of his faithful companion, Enkidu.
4) Gilgamesh
Description
It is the story of literature's first hero, an historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned.
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