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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Contributor(s): Foster, Benjamin R. (Editor)
ISBN: 0393643980     ISBN-13: 9780393643985
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE:   $20.43  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: April 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Epic
- Poetry | Middle Eastern
- Literary Criticism | African
Dewey: 892.1
LCCN: 2018044162
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 8.3" (0.65 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
 
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Publisher Description:

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.

Contributor Bio(s): Foster, Benjamin R.: - Benjamin R. Foster is Professor of Assyriology at Yale University, where he has taught since 1975. His books include Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia, Sargonic Tablets from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, and Administration and Use of Institutional Land in Sargonic Sumer, and Umma in the Sargonic Period.