Gilgamesh is the archetypal semi-divine Mesopotamian hero and legendary king of Uruk.
Texts
George, Andrew
1999a The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian, Harmondsworth: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1999 (published in Penguin Classics 2000, reprinted with minor revisions, 2003).
2003 The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic – Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2 volumes, 2003.
Select Bibliography
Cooper, Jerrold S.
2002 “Buddies in Babylonia – Gilgamesh, Enkidu and Mesopotamian Homosexuality”, in Abusch, Tz (ed.), Riches Hidden in Secret Places – Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Memory of Thorkild Jacobsen, Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 2002, pp.73-85.
George, Andrew
1999a The Epic of Gilgamesh: the Babylonian Epic Poem and Other Texts in Akkadian and Sumerian, Harmondsworth: Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 1999 (published in Penguin Classics 2000, reprinted with minor revisions, 2003).
2003 The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic – Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2 volumes, 2003.
Hammond, D. & Jablow, A.
1987 “Gilgamesh and the Sundance Kid: the Myth of Male Friendship”, in Brod, H. (ed.), The Making of Masculinities: The New Men’s Studies, Boston, 1987, pp.241-258.
Tigay, J.
1982 The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic, Philadelphia, 1982.