Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others Summary
Stephanie Dalley

Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others Summary

Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others tells the tales of ten different myths from ancient Mesopotamia, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, the Epic of Creation, and the Theogony of Dunnu. Believed to stem from oral tales, these stories have been translated from the original Akkadian stone tablets, showing clearly that these tales of heroism, evil, creation, and the rise and fall of gods spanned not only time...

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