Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics) Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• These tales from the ancient civilizations of the "fertile crescent" stand alongside the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights in being popular with an international audience at the dawn of recorded history. Here are myths of the Creation and of the Flood, as well as the fascinating Epic of Gilgamesh, a story of heroic failure in a moment of human weakness.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Oxford World's Classics) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Atrahasis the wise man, who built an ark and saved mankind from destruction, is a figure of immense prestige and antiquity to whom various literary and religious traditions were attached.