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The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition

Name: The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
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Contributors:

Benjamin R. Foster (Editor)

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Poetry, Literary Criticism

Book Subcategory:

Epic, Middle Eastern, African

Edition Description:

2nd Edition

Series:

Norton Critical Editions #0

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Release Date:

2019-04-01

ISBN 13:

9780393643985

Weight:

0.65 lbs

Size:

8.30 x 5.10 x 0.70 inches

Pages:

272

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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.

About the Author
Foster, Benjamin R.: - Benjamin R. Foster is Professor of Assyriology at Yale University, where he has taught since 1975. His books include Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature, From Distant Days: Myths, Tales, and Poetry of Ancient Mesopotamia, Sargonic Tablets from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum, and Administration and Use of Institutional Land in Sargonic Sumer, and Umma in the Sargonic Period.

The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition

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