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Glen Setchfield
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
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King Gilgamesh, in the cradle of civilization, wrestles with the fact that he is two-thirds god and one-third man. The gods have granted him Herculean power but withheld his wish for immortality. Gilgamesh will do anything to bring the Heavens to the Underworld.
This treatment, for the first time, imagines Gilgamesh for a modern day audience researched and crafted by R. Glen Setchfield. The basis of this book was a number of short English translations 30-40 pages in length. Exhaustive anthropological research surrounding the pieces of cuneiform stone tablets were also the basis for the book. In the end, this book faithfully expands upon the original folk tale’s themes. Characters, scenes, action and dialogue have all been added to round out the author’s interest in communicating the themes still relevant to a modern day audience fascinated with youth, immortality, control and interpersonal/social relevance.
Gilgamesh is one of the world’s oldest recorded stories. This Mesopotamian folk tale (3500BC; pre-dating Beowulf by 2000 years) tells the story of an ancient King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who may have actually existed, and whose name is on the Sumerian King List. The story of Gilgamesh, in various Sumerian versions, was originally widely known in the third millennium B.C. After a long history of retellings, this story was recorded, in a standardized Akkadian version, in the seventh century B.C., and stored in the famous library of King Assurbanipal.
Later, the story of Gilgamesh was lost to human memory, except for occasional fragments. The story was rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century A.D., and made available in translation to German by the beginning of the twentieth century. People were especially amazed when they read this most ancient of stories, and realized that the flood story in Gilgamesh was a close analogue of the flood story in the Hebrew Bible.
This treatment, for the first time, imagines Gilgamesh for a modern day audience researched and crafted by R. Glen Setchfield. The basis of this book was a number of short English translations 30-40 pages in length. Exhaustive anthropological research surrounding the pieces of cuneiform stone tablets were also the basis for the book. In the end, this book faithfully expands upon the original folk tale’s themes. Characters, scenes, action and dialogue have all been added to round out the author’s interest in communicating the themes still relevant to a modern day audience fascinated with youth, immortality, control and interpersonal/social relevance.
Gilgamesh is one of the world’s oldest recorded stories. This Mesopotamian folk tale (3500BC; pre-dating Beowulf by 2000 years) tells the story of an ancient King of Uruk, Gilgamesh, who may have actually existed, and whose name is on the Sumerian King List. The story of Gilgamesh, in various Sumerian versions, was originally widely known in the third millennium B.C. After a long history of retellings, this story was recorded, in a standardized Akkadian version, in the seventh century B.C., and stored in the famous library of King Assurbanipal.
Later, the story of Gilgamesh was lost to human memory, except for occasional fragments. The story was rediscovered in the mid-nineteenth century A.D., and made available in translation to German by the beginning of the twentieth century. People were especially amazed when they read this most ancient of stories, and realized that the flood story in Gilgamesh was a close analogue of the flood story in the Hebrew Bible.
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