
Gilgamesh the King
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William Coon
We're used to hearing about the latest tell-all memoir from one of today's sports figures, political insiders, or celebrity wannabes. But what if we discovered that one of history's greatest heroes had written his life story? That's the premise behind Robert Silverberg's amazing novel Gilgamesh the King.
The journey begins when six-year-old Gilgamesh's father dies. As he grows to manhood and eventually ascends to the throne, he faces many challenges along the way: political intrigue, war, the burden of leadership. But none are as difficult as his intense internal struggles against loneliness and his own mortality. Weaving together historical data, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and his own fertile imagination, Silverberg creates a rich and compassionate portrait of a man who lived about 2500 B.C.
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sensational!!!!
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A nice journey
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Who's idea was this narrator?
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Set in the first walled cities in Mesopotamia, portrays the sociocultural word of Inana at turning point in history, grieving the loss of the wild, and the threat from other cities. A story that evert young man must read.
Epic
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Gilgamesh
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You need to now what will you be listening to
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Vivid extrapolation; skilled but annoying narrator
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Like most of the reviewers, I want to reiterate that Silverberg drug this book out behind the shed, shot it in the head, and throughly butchered this performance before unceremoniously burrying it in a landfill. His droning monotonous voice completely saps any and all nuanced tone or careful characterization from what might have been an otherwise enjoyable, if innacurate, retelling of the classic Gilgamesh epos.
With that out of the way, lets get to some of the many innacuracies with this story...
The most glaring one is obviously the author's depiction of the Inanna priesthood—Inanna was not incarnate in her chief priestesses any moreso than other gods were incarnate in their chief priests. We don't know how often the sacred marraige was performed or if it was even performed at all. While it is probably true that some level of sacred prostitution did occur, chiefly by harimtu or "women of the quay", most of Inanna's clergy were actually men called Gala-priests. Gala were lamentation singers who imitated traditionally feminine speech and dress while performing hymns to Inanna during certain state functions, rituals, and funerals. There may have been an element of homosexuality to their order, but many had documented wives and children too. Additionally, at the time "Gilgamesh" (this is the Akkadian pronunciation of his native Sumerian name of Bilgames) probably reigned, the functions of the Inanna priesthood would have been far less important than those of An in Uruk. It is only really with the rise of Sargon of Akkad some half a millennium later that we see the elevation and expansion of Inanna into a role approximating that of a prominent deity. Furthermore, the way the author mentions nude children makes me suspect he's a closeted pedophile—there is no evidence for anything like these practices anywhere in the literature that I know of. This seems like a detail that the author wanted to shoehorn into the story simply because he wanted to write about little girl's chests. It was tolerable once or twice, but he writes about it nonestop—honestly one of the worst parts of this book, in my opinion.
My second issue is with Inanna's characterization—where does this author get the connection between Inanna and serpents from? I recognize that scholarship progresses as we learn new things, but as far as I'm aware, Inanna has always had a prominent connection with lions, not snakes.
The third glaring issue I noticed was the erroneous statement that Kish's patron deities were Enlil and Ninḫursaĝ... this is blatantly not true. Kish's patron deities were Zababa and Inanna of Kish (considered at times a warlike aspect of Inanna or a separate being from her) and later on during the Old Babylonian period, Bau, due to synchronization between Zababa and Bau's Lagashite husband, Ningirsu. Kish was also filled with Akkadian speakers who would have been rarities in Uruk and only recently introduced to Ur via royal marriages at this time. This brings me back to a point I made earlier, "Gilgamesh" should have been pronounced "Bilgames" the whole time—that was how his name would have been produced by the Sumerians, NOT how the Akkadians would've pronounced it—furthermore, the weird assertion that Gilgamesh was descended from the "desert nomads" as code for the Akkadians seems suspect at best since the Akkadians had been settled in the north for a very, very long time by now. Doesn't make sense to me why the author included this assumption.
This is all very serface level information that should have been known by the author and the fact that it wasn't was very upsetting to me. I'm only half way through this book and it's taking me a lot to get over just how damn innacurate it is.
Horrible Narration and Wildly Innacurate
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Reader is terrible
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The worst narration I have ever heard
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