A Modern Retelling of the Worlds Oldest Story.
Before Achilles.
Before Odysseus.
Before the idea of the hero itself—
There was Gilgamesh.
Born of gods and men, king of the mighty city of Uruk, Gilgamesh is unmatched in strength and ambition. His walls rise higher than any before them. His name spreads farther than his people’s prayers. Yet beneath the greatness lies something dangerous: a ruler who has never learned restraint, and a man who fears being forgotten more than he fears death.
When the gods answer the suffering of Uruk by creating Enkidu, a wild man shaped from clay and breath, two opposing forces collide—civilization and nature, dominance and balance, power and humanity. Their meeting will forge an unbreakable bond… and set in motion a journey that leads from glory to loss, from conquest to grief, and finally to a question that no king, god, or hero can escape:
What does it mean to live, knowing life ends?
This modern prose retelling of The Epic of Gilgamesh transforms the world’s oldest surviving epic into a vivid, emotionally grounded narrative for contemporary readers. Ancient myth is rendered with cinematic clarity, psychological depth, and moral weight—without academic barriers or archaic language.
Inside this edition:
A clear, immersive retelling of the complete epic
A focus on character, consequence, and inner transformation
Gods portrayed not as abstractions, but as flawed, powerful forces
Themes of friendship, grief, mortality, legacy, and acceptance
Written for modern readers, not specialists
This is not a translation.
It is not a scholarly reconstruction.
It is a story about power without wisdom, friendship forged in blood, and the hard-earned understanding of what truly remains when greatness fades.
For readers of mythology, literary fiction, philosophy, and epic storytelling—this is Gilgamesh as he was always meant to be felt.