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story my kids would love, The flood story being told long before Noah, along with a few other pieces also make this story interesting, I read this version of The Epic of Gilgamesh because it was free on Amazon for kindle but I'm glad I did, The extra parts about Siduri were a nice addition, I'll admit that it's been a while since I've read the Epic of Gilgamesh I'm talking well back in high school, sophomore English class but this book certainly helped remember the story.
It taught me a lot more about the story along with the story about Siduri, The writing is pretty easy to understand and very informative, Good book all in all, In Fall ofI took a class entitled Classical Foundations of History, in which we learned about the Epic of Gilgamesh, Due to the fast pace of the class, I did not have time to read the entire epic but I added it to my "to read" list.
I'm glad I found this book, which contains not only The Epic of Gilgamesh, but discussions, analysis, and a history of the tablets and the mystery of Siduri and who she was.


There is nothing new under the sun humans have always longed for immortality, Gilgamesh goes about doing things to "make a name for himself" and to be remembered in history, such as killing a fearsome and legendary beast, When his best friend he calls him his brother dies, he decides he must learn how to become immortal and his quest begins,

He seeks the advice of many and eventually he comes to Siduri, a wise young woman who tells him to enjoy life, live in the moment, take comfort in his family.
Even so, he still seeks the unattainable,

Best just accept that we won't be here forever and be thankful for what we have, living every day to the fullest, Excellent insights To be truthful I read a free online version, . . My goodness, what a confused jumble of opinion and conjecture, It is an interesting footnote in the discussion at the end that the author feels "Siduri" was considered a goddess by the Babylonians, But, he disagrees with them, The "analysis" of the author is not particularly insightful, Overall, the book reads like a combination of fan fiction and discussion forums, I read this to read the Gilgamesh story, The discussion of Siduri's advice which was essentially enjoy life by eating, drinking, dancing, and raising up children was interesting, but for me,

the epic was the key part of this book.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
A tale of gods and kings, battles and losses, A story filled with philosophy and thoughts on how to live life,

The author's writing style allows for an easy understanding of the history of this epic and he has successfully created a fascinating read I truly enjoyed.


I highly recommend this book to those interested in the Epic of Gilgamesh and philosophies on how we should live our lives,
As we all search for inner peace and happiness, this read is like a guide to think simply, The reference to the Serenity Prayer is so true, Okay, so this book isn't the work of a thesis student in a graduate literature or classics program at a prestigious university, It's not annotated with thousands of footnotes and references to other obscure works, And there's even a roundtable of discussions by other people on a first name basis at the end of the book, like a book club,

But it's a fun read, Before the book, I knew absolutely nothing about Gilgamesh, never ever heard of the name,

I think the actual translated text was more beautiful than any of the running commentary, I'm not sure if that is the complete or best translated version, but I like it,

This book is great for entertainment value, If I found a work on Gilgamesh in a library, I probably would not have picked it up to read it, What the author has done is make it fun to read, The book is mercifully short, and gives a lot of focus to the actual verses, without smothering the ancient story with commentary, Okay, so it won't be make a scholar or give me the full background on Gilgamesh's times and culture, but that's not what I am looking for right now.
In fact, I am more likely to pick up Gilgamesh in a local library now that I have heard of it, and have seen how simple and profound the verses are.


For those of you who have absolutely no idea who Gilgamesh is, he was a king in a region of presentday Iraq around,B.
C. His name lives on because of an amazingly preserved story of him written upon clay tablets hardened by exposure to fire, like a kiln,

Actually, the book is more about Gilgamesh and his brother Enkidu, rather than the wise sage Siduri, a woman, the titular character, But why quibble Well, I'm glad it was free, The actual epic is included in the middle of the book, but the commentary feels a bit sophomoric and is rather one dimensional, Knowing that this is some of the earliest known writing ever found, and in fact the earliest epic, much of the commentary is along the lines of, "This may be the first reference to.
. . " Well of course it is, Haven't we done any more research than that It reads like a middle school term paper,

But it was free, so oh well, This ebook contains the Epic of Gilgamesh along with information about a particular person in it, Siduri, The book starts off with an analysis of the epic, noting that the character of Siduri a woman was later changed to a male character, It also points out that the story is at leastyears old,

Siduri is a prowine, profeasting, promusic, prodancing, prosex and profamily which makes her a rather liberal character but not the sterotyped slut, She just likes to have fun and wants other people to have fun too,

Sidurian philosophy is covered noting that the three major concepts are understanding, joy and family, You are to understand others and their motives, see things from their perspective and make an effort to find common ground,

You should also support mental, physical and financial wellbeing,

The story is also among the first, if not the first, to feature:

a firebreathing dragon
a psychic
the first sexscene
an inyourface insult
a Noahlike story
a possible reference to marijuana

The whole epic is reproduced and it makes for an interesting story.
Afterwards there's a discussion of the story by different people,

This is an unusual but really good book,
Across the span of recorded history, at the birth of writing and civilization, there was the Epic of Gilgamesh, This seminal tale of gods, kings, battles, friendship, loss, the fear of death, the search for immortality and advice on how one should live life, represents our first complete work of literature.



While the origin of the Epic of Gilgamesh is lost to the sands of time, it is probable that this story had been verbally transmitted for a very long time before the invention of writing, but we have no way of knowing when, where or why the story actually originated or even how many original contributors there were.
What we do know is that the story encompassed a large number of concepts, ideas and philosophies, and was considered important enough that it was told from generation to generation for hundreds of years, before being immortalized in clay around four thousand years ago.



Unfortunately, the original "Old Babylonian" version of the Epic of Gilgamesh is incomplete, making it difficult for us to piece together the exact story our ancient ancestors considered so important.
However, several critical fragments of the original Epic have been recovered and differ in significant ways from later more complete versions, One of the most fascinating of these original fragments is the Sippar tablet which was discovered near the city of Sippar, on the Euphrates river, upstream of the Babylonian region in present day Iraq.
The Sippar tablet contains the earliest recorded advice, given by a beautiful young girl called Siduri, on how we should live our lives, Interestingly, in a later version of the Epic of Gilgamesh referred to as the “Akkadian” version Siduris advice was removed from the Epic and much of her original role was given to Utnapishtim, an immortal wise old man.
One theory for the diminishment of Siduris role is that Siduri being young, female and working class a wine maker, and Utnapishtim being old, male and high class an immortal wise man may have contributed, and may suggest possible differences between Sumerian and Akkadian culture.
Specifically, this change may highlight a degree of ageism, sexism and/or classism in Akkadian culture, and the removal of Siduri's advice could represent the first recorded case of censorship.



Siduri's words were recorded long before any other religious text, including the Bible, the Koran or any eastern philosophies including Buddhism and represent a very different perspective to the religious texts used today.
Siduri was prowine, profeasting, promusic, prodancing, projoy, prosex and profamily, Wouldn't the world be a better place if more people today would heed Siduri's ancient advice


In this book I have reintroduced Siduri's teachings, and the original Old Babylonian fragments into the Epic of Gilgamesh, while using the later Akkadian text to fill in the gaps in the original story.
I have tried to remain faithful to the original events, concepts and philosophies our ancient ancestors found so important, I have also included a discussion of Siduris teachings and how we can, if we so wish, live our lives according to Siduris original ancient advice.



In this updated Third Edition I have rewritten the Akkadian prose to more closely resemble the shortened poetic verse of the Old Babylonian texts, added additional analysis of the rest of the Epic and included a new section at the end of the book that contains various informative discussions, from multiple contributors, regarding Siduri's philosophies and underlying concepts within the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Discussions of Siduri and her philosophies are included in a few very short chapters at the beginning of the book, analysis of the rest of the Epic is incorporated into Chapter, the complete text for the Epic of Gilgamesh is contained within Chaptersto, and Chaptercontains the epilogue and the new multiple contributor discussions section.
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