Like Mayflies in a Stream: A Feminist Retelling of the Epic of Gilgamesh - Paperback

by Shauna Roberts (Author)

No one in Uruk dares to oppose the tyrant Gilgamesh. So the priestess Shamhat must leave her duties and go into the wilderness with the trapper Zaidu. Their mission: To find-and tame-Enkidu, a wild man who roams with the gazelles. Once they find him, however, Shamhat conceives a bold plan. She will use the wild man against Gilgamesh, and perhaps Uruk will finally have the king it deserves.

Like Mayflies in a Stream retells the exciting ancient legend of Gilgamesh from the viewpoint of Shamhat and other people of Uruk.