Myths from Mesopotamia
Subtitle: creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others
By: edited and translated with introduction and notes by Stephanie Dalley
Edition: Revised ed.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780199538362
Subjects: Sumerian Mythology; Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian
Description: The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.
Notes: First issued as a World's Classics paperback 1991, revised ed. 2000.

Mode of access: Internet.

Translated from Akkadian texts.