Uniform Title Gilgamesh. English. Title The epic of Gilgamesh : a new translation, analogues, criticism / translated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster. The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems / translated by Douglas Frayne. The Hittite Gilgamesh / translated by Gary Beckman

Edition First edition Published New York : Norton, [2001] ©2001

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Description xxiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Series Norton critical edition Norton critical edition. Contents The text of the Epic of Gilgamesh -- The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems -- The Hittite Gilgamesh -- The Gilgamesh letter -- The Gilgamesh epic: a masterpiece from Ancient Mesopotamia / William Moran -- "And death the journey's end": the Gilgamesh epic / Thorkild Jacobsen -- Images of women in the Gilgamesh epic / Rivkah Harris -- Gilgamesh remembers a dream / Hillary Major Summary An English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the king of Uruk, in an edition that includes an introduction that places the story in its historical and cultural context Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 229) Subject Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian -- Translations into English. Kings, queens, rulers, etc. -- Fiction. Giants -- Fiction. Fellowship -- Fiction. Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction. Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction. Voyages and travels -- Fiction. Fear of death -- Fiction. Grief in men -- Fiction. Immortality -- Fiction. SUBJECT Mesopotamia -- History -- To 330 B.C -- Fiction Genre/Form Fiction. Author Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read) Frayne, Douglas. Beckman, Gary M. LC no. 00038035 ISBN 0393975169 (paperback) 9780393975161 (paperback)

Other Titles Sumerian Gilgamesh poems Hittite Gilgamesh

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