The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Foster, Benjamin R.
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Condition: New, UPC: 9780393643985, Publication Date: Mon, April 1, 2019, Type: Paperback ,
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  • 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.
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