Gilgamesh

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Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

In search of Gilgamesh, the epic hero of ancient Babylonia, by Michael Dirda, review of The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery Of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, by David Damrosch, Washington Post, March 4, 2007, p. BW10
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

The Iraq War, 2500 B.C., review by Joy Connolly of Gilgamesh: A New English Version, by Stephen Mitchell, New York Times, December 5, 2004

Carved in Stone, review by Steven Moore of Gilgamesh: A New English Version, by Stephen Mitchell, and Gilgamesh, by Derrek Hines, Washington Post, November 14, 2004

The Epic of Gilgamesh, Classics Revisited (1968), by Kenneth Rexroth