Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English VerseA 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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Common terms and phrases
Annunaki Aruru Babylonian beast beauty boatman body breath Bull of Heaven Cedar Forest creatures darkness death of Enkidu demon dream drink Drum and Drumstick early morning dawning earth Enkidu the companion Enlil epic Epic of Gilgamesh Ereshkigal the Queen Etana face of Huwawa father fell fifty leagues flood fought the Bull gazelles Gilgamesh and Enkidu Gilgamesh spoke Gilgamesh the king goddess grasslands grieving guardian hairy-bodied harlot hole Ishtar killed the Bull Kovacs lapis lazuli lions listened little boat look loved Lugalbanda mother mountain mourn for Enkidu mouth is fire Nether World night Ninsun Ninurta plant poles ranged the hills roam the wilderness seized and held Shamash Shamhat Shuruppak sleep Speiser Stone Things stormy heart strongest Sumerian Sumuqan Tablet tavern keeper tell temple prostitute terror Urshānabi Uruk Utnapishtim visits the watering wafer watering places waters of death wearing the skin weeping and fearful wife Wind