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Gilgamesh : a new rendering in English verse

By David , Ferry

Book information

Publisher
and Giroux, Straus, Macmillan;Farrar
Year
1992
ISBN
9780374162276, 0374162271
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
132 kB (135055 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
99\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American. Gilgamesh. Epic poetryAssyro-Babylonian -- Adaptations. Epic poetryAssyro-Babylonian. Kings and rulers. Iraq -- ErechGilgamesh -- Adaptations. Erech (Extinct city) --

Description

A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil. Abstract: A new verse rendering of the great epic of ancient Mesopotamia, one of the oldest works in Western Literature. Ferry makes Gilgamesh available in the kind of energetic and readable translation that Robert Fitzgerald and Richard Lattimore have provided for readers in their translations of Homer and Virgil

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