Epic of Gilgamesh

Name: Epic of Gilgamesh
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ISBN: 9780393975161

ISBN-10: 0393975169

ISBN-13: 9780393975161

Edition: 2001

Authors: Benjamin R. Foster, Gilgamesh

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More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang ofthe hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits byfinding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presentstranslations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman ofthe entire Gilgamesh narrative tradition, with some texts now inEnglish for the first time. In addition to the eleven tablets of thegreat Akkadian epic, written around 1700 B.C.E., the book includesseven Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh , written before 2000 B.C.E., aswell as the later Hittite version and other related sources, among thema Babylonian parody of the epic. "Criticism" provides interpretive essays by…

Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 0.51" wide x 0.83" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Abbreviations


The Text of The Epic of Gilgamesh


Analogues to The Epic of Gilgamesh


The Sumerian Gilgamesh Poems


The Hittite Gilgamesh


The Gilgamesh Letter


Criticism


The Gilgamesh Epic: A Masterpiece from Ancient Mesopotamia



"And Death the Journey's End": The Gilgamesh Epic



Images of Women in the Gilgamesh Epic



Gilgamesh Remembers a Dream



Glossary of Proper Names


Selected Bibliography