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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, Second Edition) Loot Price: R654
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, Second Edition): Benjamin R Foster

The Epic of Gilgamesh (Paperback, Second Edition)

Benjamin R Foster

Series: Norton Critical Editions, 0

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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.

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Imprint: W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin: United States
Series: Norton Critical Editions, 0
Release date: April 2019
Editors: Benjamin R Foster
Dimensions: 211 x 132 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: Second Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-64398-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
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LSN: 0-393-64398-0
Barcode: 9780393643985

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