TY  - BOOK
AU  - George, Andrew
TI  - The epic of gilgamesh: the babylonian epic poem and other texts in Akkadian and Sumerian
SN  - 9780140449198 (pbk.)
U1  - 892.7 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Literature	
KW  - Epic
N1  - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670028/the-epic-of-gilgamesh-by-translated-with-an-introduction-by-andrew-george
N2  - "Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic, predating Homer by many centuries. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the wild man Enkidu, and of his arduous journey to the ends of the earth in quest of the Babylonian Noah and the secret of immortality. Alongside its themes of family, friendship and the duties of kings, the Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.

The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian. Andrew George’s gripping translation brilliantly combines these into a fluent narrative and will long rank as the definitive English Gilgamesh."
ER  -