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The epic of Gilgamesh : a new translation, analogues, criticism. /Gilgamesh (Legendary character).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: Variety Books Publishers Distributors  | : 2/22 Ansari Road, New DelhiPublication details: New York : Norton , ©2001.Description: xxiii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780393975161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 892.1 GIL
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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