The Epic of Gilgamesh / translated by N.K. Sanders ; produced by Gary Kern.

Program Title:
The Epic of Gilgamesh / translated by N.K. Sanders ; produced by Gary Kern.
PRA Archive #: 
KZ1387
Description: 

Reading of Sandar's translation of the Mesopotamian myth cycle. The epic originated in the 3rd millennium B.C., but exists only in fragments from the 2nd millennium B.C. to the 7th century B.C., in Old Babylonian, Hittite, and Akkadian.

r.1. Gilgamesh : King in Uruk (21 min.) -- r.2. The Forest journey (32 min.) -- r.3. Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the death of Enkidu (29 min.) -- r.4. The Search for everlasting life (26 min.) -- r.5. The Story of the flood ; The Return ; The Death of Gilgamesh (29 min.).

r.1. Gilgamesh : King in Uruk (21 min.) -- r.2. The Forest journey (32 min.) -- r.3. Ishtar and Gilgamesh, and the death of Enkidu (29 min.) -- r.4. The Search for everlasting life (26 min.) -- r.5. The Story of the flood ; The Return ; The Death of Gilgamesh (29 min.).

Station: 
Date Recorded on: 
KUCR-FM, University of California, Riverside.
Date Broadcast on: 
-0-
Item duration: 
5 reels (137 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., mono.
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Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 198-?
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