Gilgamesh
by David Ferry
AdaptationsKings and rulersPoetryEpic poetry, AmericanEpic poetry, Assyro-BabylonianAmerican Epic poetryGilgameshPoetry (poetic works by one author)
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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Book data: Open Library