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It highlights enduring themes including friendship, family, royal duty, and especially the central struggle against the fear of death in pursuit of immortality. The volume emphasizes the literary value of Gilgamesh as one of humanity’s earliest major works, supported by a substantial introduction and scholarship by Andrew George.","# P EN GU INCLA SS ICSTHE EPIC OFGILGAMESH\n\nA NEW TRANSLATION  \nPEN G U I NCLAS sICS  \n## THE EPIC OFGILGAMESH\n\nA NEW TRANSLATION  \nTRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BYANDREW GEORGE  \nWith the earliest fragments dating back over four thousandyears,Gilgamesh unquestionably ranks as 'the world's first trulygreat work of literature'(Independent).  \nAnticipating episodes from Homer and the Bible,the Epic ofGilgamesh contains many strange adventures and intriguingincidents.Among the universal themes the poem treats arefriendship,family and the duties of kings.Above all,it is the taleof one man's struggle with the fear of death,as he desperatelyseeks immortality through glorious deeds and the delusivepromise of eternal life.  \nThe standard Babylonian version has been known for over acentury,but linguists are still discovering and deciphering newfragments of long-buried clay tablets in Akkadian and Sumerian.Andrew George's gripping new translation brilliantly bringstogether all the variant traditions and transforms*a damagedmasterpiece'into a fluent coherent narrative.It will long rank asthe definitive English Gilgamesh.  \nThe cover shows a Persian gold relief fron the Achaemenid period (c.400BC)showing a herograppling with lions (photo:The Ancient Art &Architecture Collection)  \nPENGUIN www.penguinclassics.comLiteraturePoetry  \n## THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH\n\n'Humankind's first literary achievement ...Gilgamesh shouldcompel us as the well-spring of which we are inheritors...Andrew George provides an excellent critical and historicalintroduction’Paul Binding,Independent on Sunday  \n'This volume will endure as,one of the milestone markers...[Andrew George]expertly and easily conducts his readers on adelightful and moving epic journey’Samuel A.Meier,The Times Literary Supplement  \n'Appealingly presented and very readably translated...it stillcomes as an exhilarating surprise to find the actions and emotionsof the Sumerian superhero coming to us with absolute immediacyover 30-odd centuries'Scotsman  \n'Andrew George has formed an English text from the best of thetablets,differentiating his complex sources but allowing thegeneral reader a clear run at one of the first enduring stories evertold’Peter Stothard,The Times  \n‘An exemplary combination of scholarship and lucidity ...veryimpressive ...invaluable as a convenient guide to all the differentstrands which came together to produce the work we now callGilgamesh’Alan Wall,Literary Review  \nWINNER OF THE BRITISH-KUWAIT FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY PRIZEIN MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES  \n## ABOUT THE AUTH OR\n\nThe Epic of Gilgamesh is best known from a version called 'Hewho saw the Deep’,which circulated in Babylonia and Assyria inthe first millennium BC.The Babylonians believed this poem tohave been the responsibility of a man called 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