Research Catalog

Title

Myths from Mesopotamia : creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others / edited and translated with introduction and notes by Stephanie Dalley.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Additional Authors

Dalley, Stephanie

Description

xix, 339 p. : ill., map; 20 cm.

Summary

The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

Oxford world's classics

Uniform Title

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Subject

• Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian
• Mythology, Sumerian

Genre/Form

• Myths
• Mythes.

Note

• First issued as a World's Classics paperback 1991, revised ed. 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-337).

Language (note)

• Translated from Akkadian texts.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Atrahasis -- The epic of Gilgamesh -- The descent of Ishtar to the underworld -- Nergal and Ereshkigal -- Adapa -- Etana -- Anzu -- The epic of creation -- Theogony of Dunnu -- Erra and Ishum.

ISBN

• 9780199538362 (pbk.)
• 0199538360 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 298595420
• SCSB-12416409

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library