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The epic of Gilgamesh / a new translation, analogues, criticism and response ; translated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster

Uniform Title
Gilgamesh. English
Published
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Description
xxiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators
Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read)

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Contents
The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems / translated by Douglas Frayne The Hittite Gilgamesh / translated by Gary Beckman.
Summary
This Norton Critical Edition includes: An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece. Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations. Eleven illustrations. Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite narrative traditions along with "The Gilgamesh Letter, " a parody of the epic enjoyed by Mesopotamian schoolchildren during the first millennium BCE. Essays by Thorkild Jacobsen, William L. Moran, Susan Ackerman, and Andrew R. George, and a poem by Hillary Major. A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.
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ISBN
9780393643985 (paperback)
0393643980 (paperback)
Note
Translated from the Akkadian.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246).
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