The Epic of Gilgamesh

A Norton Critical Edition

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This Norton Critical Edition includes:- An expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece.- Benjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations.- Eleven illustrations.- Analogues from the Sumerian and Hittite narrative traditions along with "The Gilgamesh Letter," a parody of the epic enjoyed by Mesopotamian schoolchildren during the first millennium BCE.- Essays by Thorkild Jacobsen, William L. Moran, Susan Ackerman, and Andrew R. George, and a poem by Hillary Major.- A Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.

• ISBN: 9780393643985
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2019
• Größe: 211 x 128 mm
• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Herausgegeben von: Benjamin R Foster