Gilgamesh Author:unknown A verse narrative by Herbert Mason with an afterword by John H. Marks. The origins of the ancient Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh extend back to the third millenium BC, fifteen hundred years before Homer...Its themes are love and death and man's attempt to reconcile himself to tragedy, conveyed with a wealth of imagination and an intensity of feelin... more »g unrivaled in the epic form...etc. TPB« less