The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
ISBN-13:
9780393643985
ISBN-10:
0393643980
Edition:
Second
Author:
Benjamin R. Foster
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780393643985
ISBN-10:
0393643980
Edition:
Second
Author:
Benjamin R. Foster
Publication date:
2019
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions) (ISBN-13: 9780393643985 and ISBN-10: 0393643980), written by authors
Benjamin R. Foster, was published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2019.
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“This scrupulous new translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh manages to convey much of the archaic power and even something of the occasional humor of the ancient Mesopotamian poem. What is especially valuable is that the translators, by collating passages from the different ancient versions of this epic that have survived only in fragments, have made available many vivid narrative episodes that will be new to most English readers of the poem.”
―Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley
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.
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