Free PDF Download Books by Benjamin R. More than a thousand years before Homer or the Bible, Mesopotamian poets sang of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who sought to crown his superhuman exploits. A New Edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh (Review of George, Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic) (2005). Jan 10, 2017 Benjamin Foster, Laffan Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature and curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection at Yale, translated the AkkadianEpic of Gilgamesh for the Norton Critical Editions series, The Epic of Gilgamesh (2001), and is the author of Akkadian Literature of the Late Period (2007) as well as twenty-five or more studies on various aspects of Akkadian literature.
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