Translated by Andrew George, The Epic of Gilgamesh is the world’s oldest surviving epic, preserved in Akkadian and Sumerian texts. This Penguin Classics edition which includes The Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian presents the Babylonian masterpiece alongside other texts with scholarly precision and literary clarity. A definitive and highly readable translation and an enduring classic in mythology, history, and world literature.
