Gilgamesh

GilgameshStephen Mitchell (author) Vivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become

by Harald Haas (Selections

is shown approaching human beings through such phenomena as materialism

illuminating the panorama of humanity’s musical past

Steiner gives numerous examples of this process

Sarah Langford is a criminal and family barrister and author of the Sunday Times bestselling narrative non-fiction book

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 238 pages

21st March

Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute

he left the Anthroposophical Society and its internal struggles and converted to Catholicism

Following this traumatic start – and not without a heavy dose of good fortune – he was later able to travel to the US for his undergraduate studies in 1995 and was granted asylum in the country in 1998 where

benevolent rulers

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pages