{"product_id":"gilgamesh-conquest-mahmood-karimi-hakak-9780985737962","title":"Gilgamesh CON\/QUEST: The epic dramatized in seven scenes","description":"Re-discovered only in the mid-19th century on a set of clay tablets in a previously undeciphered cuneiform script, the epic of Gilgamesh tells of semi-divine Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, who is challenged, loved and transformed by Enkidu, the part-animal man who lives in the wild. Together they vanquish Humbaba, the Giant of the cedar forest, mock the powerful goddess Ishtar and slay the Bull of Heaven she sends against them. When the gods resolve to destroy Enkidu, Gilgamesh, grief-stricken, journeys to the ends of the earth seeking to comprehend his own mortality.\u003cbr\u003eGilgamesh CON\/QUEST, first conceived by Mahmood Karimi Hakak and Ralph Blasting and performed as an experimental theatre piece in 1991, captures the grandeur and enigma of a civilization's epic poetry and the emotions of its gods, mortals, monsters and poets--four millennia distant from us in time and mind, but profoundly and timelessly human.\u003cbr\u003eGilgamesh CON\/QUEST gives us the words, the poetry, the script, the music, and the historic-linguistic and mythic\/mythopoetic context of this sublime and immortal work of art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mahmood Karimi Hakak, Ralph J. Blasting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0985737964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780985737962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kairios Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Mahmood Karimi Hakak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47135261851903,"sku":"9780985737962","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b2643543-6ef9-40de-8a34-22a04b02e0c9.jpg?v=1755009620","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gilgamesh-conquest-mahmood-karimi-hakak-9780985737962","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}