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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-27 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
With contributions from leading scholars, this is a uniquecross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide rangeof cultures and time periods, which p
Language: en
Pages: 404
Pages: 404
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Michael Murrin here offers the first analysis to bring an understanding of both the history of literature and the history of warfare to the study of the epic.
Language: en
Pages: 247
Pages: 247
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-27 - Publisher: Penn State Press
The deeds and struggles of Gilgamesh, legendary king of the city-state Uruk in the land of Sumer, have fascinated readers for millennia. They are preserved prim
Language: en
Pages: 353
Pages: 353
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-04 - Publisher: Routledge
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