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Anonymous Sat May 18 21:28:53 2013 No.3772122 [View]
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What translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh is the best? How are Penguin translations in general? How important is the translation in general? If, for example, Penguin translations suck and some other publisher has better ones will it really affect my understanding of the book? Or is it just people being pedantic?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 31 12:19:01 2012 No.2682404 [View] File: 109 KB, 485x556, gilgamesh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It is a very short book, and as the original story was carved into stone tablets nearly five thousand years ago its impossible to pick a best translation.

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