Ebook: Gilgamesh : a new rendering in English verse
Author: Ferry David
- Tags: Gilgamesh -- Adaptations. Erech (Extinct city) -- Kings and rulers -- Poetry. Epic poetry Assyro-Babylonian -- Adaptations. Epic poetry American. Gilgamesh. Epic poetry Assyro-Babylonian. Kings and rulers. Iraq -- Erech (Extinct city)
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: Macmillan
- City: New York, Erech (Extinct city), Iraq--Erech (Extinct city)
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
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