Reviews for America! America!

The average rating for America! America! based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-25 00:00:00 Thomas Morrison Adventure, loyalty, politics, religion, so many genres are touched upon by "Gilgamesh." Tigay has done an amazing job in presenting the history of the creation, compilation, and development of the Gilgamesh stories and epics. He keeps clear the various editions and renditions, and variant readings. He addresses many philological notes. Transliteration of various texts are in the Appendix. He gives a wonderful, detailed summary of the stories/epic. There are over 20 pages of works cited. The indices are rich though not all-inclusive, and include sections on Sumerian terms, Akkadian terms, and one or two from Hittite, Amorite, etc. An absolutely indispensable book in understanding the so-called Gilgamesh epic and especially its creation, development, and directed mutations.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-14 00:00:00 Kimberley Hunter Last chapter was definitely worth the read, previous ones were questionable, but enjoyable.