The epic of Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh (Legendary character).

The epic of Gilgamesh : a new translation, analogues, criticism. /Gilgamesh (Legendary character). - New York : Norton , ©2001. - xxiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

The text of the Epic of Gilgamesh --
Analogues to the Epic of Gilgamesh. The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems ; The Hittite Gilgamesh ; The Gilgamesh letter --
Criticism. The Gilgamesh epic : a masterpiece from Ancient Mesopotamia / William Moran ; "And death the journey's end" : the Gilgamesh epic / Thorkild Jacobsen ; Images of women in the Gilgamesh epic / Rivkah Harris --
Gilgamesh remembers a dream / Hillary Major --
Glossary of proper names.

An English-language rendering of the world's oldest epic follows the journey of conquest and self-discovery by the king of Uruk, in an edition that includes an introduction that places the story in its historical and cultural context.


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