Title: Gilgamesh
First published: 1992
Description: A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil.
Subjects: Adaptations, Kings and rulers, Poetry, Epic poetry, American, Epic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian, American Epic poetry, Gilgamesh, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Places: Erech (Extinct city)
LC classification: PS3556.E77 G55 1992