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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics) Anonymous
Publisher: Penguin Classics

Some scholars have pointed to similarities with the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh. The ruins of Uruk were only recently discovered, and the story of Gilgamesh itself was lost to time until a 1872 I'm doing Trish's Classics Challenge with you and was happy to discover another review of a "classic" not written in the same millenium as the rest (you've made my Suetonius history look très modern now, though). Dating back to 26th century B.C.E., The Epic of Gilgamesh is probably based on a Sumerian king who ruled the city of Uruk around 2750 B.C.E. The most well-known translation is that of E. Although there have been many more translations, that by Richmond . I have in mind Peter Kreeft's analysis of Ecclesiastes. Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century). Rieu, in the Penguin Classics edition, first published in 1950. The Roman writer Lucius Livius Andronicus, from Taranto in southern Italy, translated the Odyssey into Latin verse in the third century b.c.e. In one of the brief redactions of the Epic, Dilmun is mentioned (Penguin Classics – N.K. The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Verison with an Introduction (Penguin Classics).