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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition

The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition

Foster, Benjamin R.

Paperback

Series: Norton Critical Editions, Book 0

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 0393643980
ISBN13: 9780393643985
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 1 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

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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