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The epic of Gilgamesh
- Title
- The epic of Gilgamesh / a new translation, analogues, criticism and response ; translated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster.
- Publication
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read)
- Description
- xxiii, 246 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Norton critical edition
- Uniform Title
- Gilgamesh. English.
- Norton critical edition.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Note
- Translated from the Akkadian.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246).
- Contents
- The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems / translated by Douglas Frayne The Hittite Gilgamesh / translated by Gary Beckman.
- Call Number
- JFD 19-5096
- ISBN
- 9780393643985
- 0393643980
- LCCN
- 2018044162
- OCLC
- 1055569235
- Title
- The epic of Gilgamesh / a new translation, analogues, criticism and response ; translated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster.
- Publisher
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- Second edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Norton critical editionNorton critical edition.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246).
- Added Author
- Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read), translator, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-5096