The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic

by: Jeffrey H. Tigay

Price : 150.00 E£

Genre : Literary Criticism

Special Features- Aims to show how The Gilgamesh Epic developed from its earliest to its latest form- Systematic step-by-step tracking of the stylistic thematic structural and theological changes in The Gilgamesh Epic- Relation of changes to factors (geographical political religious literary) that may have prompted them- Attempts to identify the sources (biographical historical literary folkloric) of the epics themes and to suggest what may have been intended by use of these themes- Extensive bibliography- Indices