The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition

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.

Author: Benjamin R. Foster
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/01/2019
Series: Norton Critical Editions #0
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393643985
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