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Adam and Steve.(BOOKS)(Gilgamesh: A New English Version)(Book Review)
The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
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March 1, 2005|
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
Translated by Stephen Mitchell
Free Press. 290 pages, $24.
GILGAMESH IS the first significant work of literature in history--not Western history, but all of history--an epic that was first written down (ca. 2100 BCE) over a thousand years before The Iliad and The Odyssey or the Bible. And it happens to have a strong homoerotic and even homosexual element at its very core, a relationship between two heroes, Gilgamesh and Enkidu. The former is king of the Babylonian city of Uruk, a giant among men who's two-thirds god ...
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