Footnote 1 – Gilgamesh—Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before

A superb scholarly edition was recently published by Andrew R. George: The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2003). David Ferry’s Gilgamesh (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992) is a very good popular translation.