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Herbert Mason's best-selling Gilgamesh is the most widely read and enduring interpretation of this ancient Babylonian epic. One of the oldest and most universal stories known in literature, the epic of Gilgamesh presents the grand, timeless themes of love and death, loss and reparations within the stirring tale of a hero-king and his doomed friend. A finalist for the National Book Award, Mason's retelling is at once a triumph of scholarship, a masterpiece of style, and a labor of love that grew out of the poet's long affinity with the original.
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Rating :  - The best version for teaching
As a high school humanities teacher, I've used this text for over a dozen classes, and I've looked at a number of different translations. Mason's version is, hands down, the best. He writes with such poetic eloquence, and with sparse language, and he creates a bridge between the human struggles for meaning today, and those faced by those thousands of years ago--a truly magnificent translation. If yours is a history class, and exact and literal translation of the original cuneiform is important to you, you can try the Norton version; that is a very dry, and somewhat arduous, read, though. Mason's version will inspire your students and get you to the heart of the text.
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