The epic of Gilgamesh / a new translation, analogues, criticism and response ; translated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster.

Contributor Foster, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Read) translator, editor.

Edition Statement:Second edition.

ImprintNew York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Descriptionxxiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Note:The text of The epic of Gilgamesh -- Analogues to The Epic of Gilgamesh -- The Sumerian Gilgamesh Poems / Douglas Frayne -- The Hittite Gilgamesh / Gary Beckman -- The Gilgamesh Letter / Benjamin R. Foster -- The Birth of Gilgamesh According to the Roman Historian Aelian / Albert Pietersma -- Criticism and Response -- Critical Approaches to The Epic of Gilgamesh -- "And Death the Journey's End": The Gilgamesh Epic / Thorkild Jacobsen -- The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Document of Ancient Humanism / William L. Moran -- Liminal Women: Shamhat, Siduri, Ishtar, and Utnapishtim's Wife / Susan Ackerman -- The Mayfly on the River: Individual and Collective Destiny in the Epic of Gilgamesh / Andrew R. George -- Gilgamesh Remembers a Dream / Hillary Major.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246).

Note: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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