Ww Norton & Co - The Epic Of Gilgamesh A Norton Critical Edition - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Epic Of Gilgamesh A Norton Critical Edition
Brand: Ww Norton & Co
Barcode: 9780393643985
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2019
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets