The epic of Gilgamesh - Benjamin R. Foster

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.