The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest epic masterpiece.\ More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits by finding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presents translations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman of the entire Gilgamesh narrative tradition, with some texts now in English for the first time. In addition to the eleven tablets of the great Akkadian...
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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionAbbreviationsThe Text of The Epic of Gilgamesh1Analogues to The Epic of Gilgamesh97The Sumerian Gilgamesh Poems99The Hittite Gilgamesh157The Gilgamesh Letter167Criticism169The Gilgamesh Epic: A Masterpiece from Ancient Mesopotamia171"And Death the Journey's End": The Gilgamesh Epic183Images of Women in the Gilgamesh Epic207Gilgamesh Remembers a Dream219Glossary of Proper Names221Selected Bibliography229
