Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic TC_Bestseller Will Rogers

Will Rogers

“Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have appeared in the past half-century

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to the restaurants that served $200-per-person tasting menus to the wealthy as the death toll soared

Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic TC_Bestseller Will RogersA poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace Sophus Helles new translation . . . [is] a thrilling, enchanting, desperate thing to read.Nina MacLaughlin, Boston Globe Looks to be the last word on this Babylonian masterpiece.Michael Dirda, Washington Post Gilgamesh is a Babylonian story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with death;