When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David by Susan Ackerman

When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David

Susan Ackerman

353 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Toward the end of the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh King Gilgamesh laments the untimely death of his comrade Enkidu, "my friend whom I loved dearly." Similarly in the Bible, David mourns his companion, Jonathan, whose "love to me was wonderful, g...

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