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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) Anonymous
Publisher: Penguin Classics

K, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Middlesex, England: Penguin Classics, 1960. The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation. Today I went to the Penguin Classics website and looked at their list of the Top 100 Penguin Classics and went through that list to see what I had read and what was included. P EN GU IN @CLASS I CS THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH A NEW TRANSLATION TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW GEORGE WIth tb •• ar!i. 8 Tomas, Andrew, Atlantis from Legend to Discovery, London: Sphere Books, Ltd., 1972, p. This translation was published by Penguin Classics in 2000. €�I soon found Dante wasn't quite the thigh-slapper I His most recent title was “The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh,” and he's at work on another popular nonfiction title about the cultural history of the conquest of Mexico. Enuma Elish: The Seven Tablets of the History of Creation. Dec 24, 2011, 2:02:00 AM · Parrish Lantern said The version I have is The Penguin Classics http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epic-Gilgamesh-Classics-Penguin/dp/014044100X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1324905079&sr=8-3. The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. Fr.gm.n dating t.ok O,et four thou.and yea . He especially liked satirical novels, so when he saw “The Divine Comedy” listed in the back of one of those Penguin Classics, he went out and grabbed a copy. I laughed out loud when I heard the progression from “slingin' the crack” to “Anglo-Saxons” and “the magic of Penguin Classics”—both for the delightful half-rhymes and because I was reminded of my undergraduate reverence for the mighty Penguin (as well as my There is a somewhat amusing aside on the erroneous science of Gilgamesh being two-thirds divine and one-third mortal, though I feel that the tone at this point is a little too academic, rather than epic. Andrew George is Reader in Assyriology at SOAS (the School of Oriential and African Studies) in London, and is also an Honorary Lecturer at the University's Institute of Archaeology. There have been several different translations of The Epic of Gilgamesh but the one I read was the Penguin Classics version translated by Andrew George.