St. Louis Art Museum:
Friday, November 18, 2005
Lecture

Gilgamesh: Retelling the Oldest Epic in the World

Auditorium
7:00 pm
Free

Best-selling translator and author Stephen Mitchell speaks on his acclaimed retelling of the ancient epic. Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature and dates from as early as 1700 BC. Lost for almost two millennia, the eleven clay tables on which the epic was inscribed were discovered in 1853 in the ruins of Nineveh (present-day Iraq). This lecture is followed by a book signing. Books are available for purchase in the Museum Shop.