The Epic of Gilgamesh

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.