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The Epic of Gilgamesh

By Foster, Benjamin R

The Epic of Gilgamesh

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2019-04-01
Publication Date:
2019-04-01
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0393643980
ISBN13:
9780393643985
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
269 g
Height:
12.8 cm
Width:
21.1 cm
Thickness:
1.7 cm
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