The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Benjamin R. FosterSeries:Norton Critical EditionsPublish date:2019-04-01Pages:272
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393643985ISBN-10:393643980UPC:9780393643985Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Epic, Middle Eastern, AfricanSize:8.30 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.65Product ID:SCAJE7E30H
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393643985ISBN-10:393643980UPC:9780393643985Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Epic, Middle Eastern, AfricanSize:8.30 x 5.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.65Product ID:SCAJE7E30H
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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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2nd Edition
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