Epic of Gilgamesh

Further Reading

Books

Black, Jeremy, and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

Dalley, Stephanie, ed. and trans. Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Damrosch, David. The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: Henry Holt, 2007.

Fleming, Daniel E., and Sara J. Milstein. The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic: The Akkadian Huwawa Narrative. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2010.

Foster, Benjamin R., ed. and trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation, Analogues, Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

George, Andrew. The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Press, 1999.

George, Andrew. The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Foster, Benjamin R., Douglas Frayne, and Gary M. Beckman, eds. and trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.

Harris, Rivkah. Gender and Aging in Mesopotamia: The Gilgamesh Epic and Other Ancient Literature. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003.

Heidel, Alexander. Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.

Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Treasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1976.

Kluger, Rivkah Schärf. The Archetypal Significance of Gilgamesh: A Modern Ancient Hero. Einsiedeln, Switzerland: Daimon Verlag, 2004.

Maier, John, ed. Gilgamesh: A Reader. Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2001.

Moran, William. “The Gilgamesh Epic: A Masterpiece from Ancient Mesopotamia.” In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, vol. 4, ed. Jack M. Sasson. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Parpola, Simo. The Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 1997.

Sandars, N. K. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1960.

Tigay, Jeffrey H. The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic. Wauconda, Ill.: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2002.

Web Sites

• Brown, Arthur A. “Storytelling, the Meaning of Life, and the Epic of Gilgamesh.” Exploring Ancient World Cultures Web site. http://eawc.evansville.edu/essays/brown.htm