NOTE: I have identified free online versions of most of the required and optional readings, so it should be possible to complete this course without buying the textbook set. However, the translations online are old and not nearly as readable as the ones in the textbooks. So, unless money is a BIG problem, I encourage you to buy the textbook set. It is wonderful and you almost certainly will want to keep it for many years.
Also check out the WWW links at the
bottom of this page for access to various free online
versions of many of the stories and poems and related
interesting material.
The Epic of Gilgamesh: etext translated by Maureen Gallery Kovacs.
or: The Epic of Gilgamesh etext translated by
Nancy Sanders. This version goes all the way to the
death of Gilgamesh.
