The epic of Gilgamesh
Subtitle: a new translation, analogues, criticism
By: translated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster. The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems / translated by Douglas Frayne. The Hittite Gilgamesh / translated by Gary Beckman
Contributors: Foster, Benjamin R.; Frayne, Douglas; Beckman, Gary M
Edition: 1st ed
Series: A Norton critical edition
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian -- Translations into English
Other titles: Sumerian Gilgamesh poems; Hittite Gilgamesh
Work titles: Gilgamesh. English
Description: "The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world's oldest epic masterpiece. More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits by finding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presents translations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman of the entire Gilgamesh narrative tradition, with some texts now in English for the first time. In addition to the eleven tablets of the great Akkadian epic, written about 1700 B.C.E., the book includes seven Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh, written before 2000 B.C.E., as well as the later Hittite version and other related sources, among them a Babylonian parody of the epic." ""Criticism" provides interpretive essays by William Moran, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Riykah Harris and concludes with a modern poetic response to the Gilgamesh epic by Hillary Major." "A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229)
Table of contents: title: The text of the Epic of Gilgamesh; title: The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems; title: The Hittite Gilgamesh; title: The Gilgamesh letter; title: The Gilgamesh epic: a masterpiece from Ancient Mesopotamia / William Moran; title: "And death the journey's end": the Gilgamesh epic / Thorkild Jacobsen; title: Images of women in the Gilgamesh epic / Rivkah Harris; title: Gilgamesh remembers a dream / Hillary Major