文档介绍：................................................................7INTRODUCTION...........................................................................9WhoWasGilgamesh?................................................................9WhatIsTheEpicofGilgamesh?.............................................12Form,Authorship,andAudienceofTheEpicofGilgamesh....13TranslatingTheEpicofGilgamesh..........................................15ReadingTheEpicofGilgamesh..............................................17DirectSpeech.....................................................................17Parallelism.........................................................................18NarrativeContrasts............................................................20FiguresofSpeech..............................................................20Wordplay...........................................................................umbers..................................................23PeculiaritiesofSpeech.......................................................poundExpressions.....................................................24Themes..............................................................................24THEEPICOFGILGAMESH........................................................28TabletI.....................................................................................28TabletII....................................................................................42TabletIII..................................................................................57TabletIV..................................................................................68TabletV...................................................................................80TabletVI..................................................................................90TabletVII.................................................