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It is possible (though not certain) that Gilgamesh was an actual king, who in his essay at the end of the novel Silverberg places around 2500 B.C., which agrees with Dalley.
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He met Dr Stephanie Dalley, an orientalist, who told him about something she had seen on the wooden cuneiform tablets she was translating.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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It is possible (though not certain) that Gilgamesh was an actual king, who in his essay at the end of the novel Silverberg places around 2500 B.C., which agrees with Dalley.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Gilgamesh, upon losing Enkidu, tries to call him up, but gets only his ghost (Dalley 1989: 120-125; cf. Ferry 1992: 85-92).
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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He met Dr Stephanie Dalley, an orientalist, who told him about something she had seen on the wooden cuneiform tablets she was translating.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Ea tries to rescue Ishtar from the underworld by sending a servant and is partially successful (Dalley 1989: 158).
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Dalley adds, "This does not sound like the playwright once quoted as saying he wanted his work to be 'entirely untouched by an suspicion of usefulness' ... but that was before his involvement with human rights became more intense, including visits to eastern Europe and a growing friendship with Vaclav Havel."
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Gilgamesh, upon losing Enkidu, tries to call him up, but gets only his ghost (Dalley 1989: 120-125; cf. Ferry 1992: 85-92).
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Ea tries to rescue Ishtar from the underworld by sending a servant and is partially successful (Dalley 1989: 158).
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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The Peapack, N. J., couple recently decided to donate the book to the State Historical Society in North Dakota, where Dalley settled and lived out his wifeless days.
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