Thoughts?

Pretty beautiful. Telling that the oldest text known to man is about the fear of death.

It's OG as fuck, OP. Good baseline materials for exploration of myth (in subsequent texts). Interesting as an anthropological document. Good shit.

Really beautiful and a great way to get into epics. It also blew my mind how much this book had in common with the Old Testament.

Underrated and not read by as many people as it should be.

What's the best translation? Is there even a difference in translations like the Iliad?

>>10029429
OP's pic related is unironically the best version

>>10029360
Not very epic desu senpai

>>10029370
>the oldest text known to man

"no"

>>10029370
the Torah was written in fire before the stones of the world had been set

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>>10029429
Absolutely. Many translations are actually just retellings that fill out the holes in the text. Andrew George's (Penguin, in the op pic) doesn't do that, it is very loyal to the original, also has excellent poetic rhythm (repetition, alliteration etc.) and additional texts - the introduction, the alternative versions of the tablets and the proto-Gilgamesh "Bilgames" poems. Everything one could ask for.

derivative

>>10029669
Oh yes, of course it was.