{"product_id":"the-epic-of-gilgamesh-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393643985","title":"The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Norton Critical Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Norton Critical Edition includes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn expanded translation from the Akkadian by Benjamin R. Foster based on new discoveries, adding lines throughout the world's oldest epic masterpiece.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBenjamin R. Foster's full introduction and expanded explanatory annotations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEleven illustrations.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAnalogues 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.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEssays by Thorkild Jacobsen, William L. Moran, Susan Ackerman, and Andrew R. George, and a poem by Hillary Major.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eA Glossary of Proper Names and a Selected Bibliography.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFoster, Benjamin R.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eBenjamin R. Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Assyriology at Yale University, where he has taught since 1975. His books include \u003cem\u003eBefore the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFrom Distant Days: Myths, Tales\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry of Ancient Mesopotamia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSargonic Tablets from Telloh in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAdministration and Use of Institutional Land in Sargonic Sumer, and Umma in the Sargonic Period\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50646591668498,"sku":"9780393643985","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83aab499-e8f5-4c28-af95-efdfb8e0ae86.jpg?v=1733181333","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-a-norton-critical-edition-9780393643985","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}