The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and SumerianOriginally the work of an anonymous Babylonian poet, who lived over 3700 years ago, this is the tale of one man's struggle against death. Not content with the immortal renown won by reckless deeds, the hero of the epic seeks immortality itself and journeys to the end of the earth and beyond. |
Contents
List of Figures | vii |
Introduction | xiii |
A Note on the Translation | liii |
Map of the Ancient Near East | lix |
Babylonian Texts of the Early Second Millennium BC ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Babylonian Texts of the Late Second Millennium BC from | 127 |
The Sumerian Poems of Gilgamesh | 141 |
From Tablet to Translation | 209 |
Glossary of Proper Nouns | 222 |
Copyright | |