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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

FormatBook
Language English
ISBN-13 / SKU 9780393643985

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by Benjamin R. Foster (Editor)

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.
Number of Pages: 272
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.3 x 5.1 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: April 01, 2019
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