Gilgamesh
David Ferry · 1992
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About the book
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.
First sentence: of him who knew the most of all men know; who made the journey; heartbroken; reconciled; who knew the way things were before the Flood, the secret things, the mystery; who went to the end of the earth, and over; who returned, and wrote the story on a tablet of stone. He built Uruk.
Book details
- Year
- 1992
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Noonday Press
- Editions
- 3
- Pages
- 99
- ISBN
- 9780374523831
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