What would you do in my case?
I don't have a copy of Norton's just yet and we are approaching week 5's assignment to read Gilgamesh from Norton's.

Would the dialectic book by McCaughrean suffice? I do have From Distant Days but it seems we need Tablet XI to answer the literature chart for rhetoric level.
Thanks,
Stephanie

Just found the link on the Tapestry site for week 5 with a Gilgamesh summary on it.

I think we'll just try that unless someone has another suggestion.

The other thing to do is find Gilgamesh online. It's way out of copyright. Then using your TOG manual, figure out what "book" or "tablet" you are to read and read that.

Thanks Pat, that's exactly what we did.
I'm surprised he was able to understand it but I think going through the McCaughrean book helped as well as his hearing his younger sister's being read the Ludmila Zeman books for upper grammar.
Our library also had a version by Stephen Mitchell that read very easy. He finished that one on his own.

I have a follow-on question to this one...I am scheduled to teach this book in our co-op, and none of us are using the Norton version. One thing I can't seem to get a handle on though, is the the assignment in Gilgamesh to read just tablet XI? I can't find anything in the notes or RAC that says so, but since there is content that is explicit in the other tablets, I am assuming that the pages assigned from Norton's would eliminate those. Is this correct? Thanks for the help!

Hi Becky! Yes, that's about right: scholars have only found fragments of the various tablets (I believe there are supposed to be twelve in all), and the content in some of them is explicit. So, we assigned Tablet XI, which I believe is their version of the Flood story, and is safe to read.

HTH!
c.j.somerville

yes thanks that is very helpful!