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245	1	4	_aThe epic of Gilgamesh _h[Book] : _ba new translation, analogues, criticism / _ctranslated and edited by Benjamin R. Foster. The Sumerian Gilgamesh poems / translated by Douglas Frayne. The Hittite Gilgamesh / translated by Gary Beckman.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bNorton, _cc2001.
300			_axxiii, 229 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
490	0		_aA Norton critical edition
520			_aMore than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits by finding eternal life. This Norton Critical Edition presents translations by Benjamin R. Foster, Douglas Frayne, and Gary Beckman of the entire Gilgamesh narrative tradition, with some texts now in English for the first time. In addition to the eleven tablets of the great Akkadian epic, written around 1700 B.C.E., the book includes seven Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh, written before 2000 B.C.E., as well as the later Hittite version and other related sources, among them a Babylonian parody of the epic. "Criticism" provides interpretive essays by William Moran, Thorkild Jacobsen, and Rivkah Harris and concludes with a modern poetic response to the Gilgamesh epic by Hillary Major. .
521			_aAll.
650		0	_aEpic poetry, Assyro-Babylonian _xTranslations into English.
700			_aFoster, Benjamin R. _q(Benjamin Read)
700	1		_aFrayne, Douglas.
700	1		_aBeckman, Gary M.
852			_p44946 _91381.08 _h892.1 EPI _vAroma Books _b2nd Floor _dBooks _t1 _q1-New _aJZL-CUI
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