This Literature Unit Is:

The Epic of Gilgamesh: Part Two
The Revenge of Ishtar
by Ludmilla Zeman

Introduction

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who read this story often, wrote, "Gilgamesh is an immensity." The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest and most powerful stories that has survived until our day. It is much older than Homer's masterpieces, The Odyssey and The Iliad, dating back to the 3rd millennium B.C. It is the story of a king, part man/part god, who searches for immortality. Along the way he finds friendship and eventually comes to a new understanding of himself and his place in the world.

The Revenge of Ishtar is the second book in this excellent series for your youngest children. In this book we see how Enkidu's and Gilgamesh's friendship has grown and how the Ishtar takes her revenge on them for killing the Bull of Heaven.

Edition I Use: The Revenge of Ishtar by Ludmila Zeman
ISBN: 0-88776-436-3 / $8.95
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