Kent H. Dixon

The most complete Gilgamesh in translation—including the new discoveries from Tablet V. The Epic of Gilgamesh is the epic—the hero's journey, quest, and education—inscribed onto damp clay tablets several millennia before Odysseus or the priest of Ecclesiastes found their voices. Sumerian versions of the epic date back almost 5000 years. It is a Bildungsroman of a bad king learning to...