Gilgamesh among Us -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Story -- The Text -- The Rediscovery -- The Early Translations -- 1. The Initial Reception (1884-1935) -- The First Literarization -- Babel and Bible -- The German Connection -- The Spread of the Epic -- 2. Representative Beginnings (1941-1958) -- Modes of Modernization -- Four Poets in English -- Four German Initiatives -- A Major German Thematization -- The First Musical Settings -- 3. The Popularization of Gilgamesh (1959-1978) -- Poetic Adaptations -- The First Fictionalization -- The Gay Gilgamesh -- Gilgamesh and the Philosophers -- A Comic Interlude -- Three American Fictional Exuberances -- The Operatic Gilgamesh -- 4. The Contemporization of Gilgamesh (1979-1999) -- New Contexts -- Gilgamesh Psychoanalyzed -- Gilgamesh Deconstructed -- Gilgamesh Historicized -- Gilgamesh Drums for the Greens -- Gilgamesh Postfigured -- Gilgamesh Personalized -- Gilgamesh Hispanicized -- Gilgameshiana -- Gilgamesh at Millennium's End -- 5. Gilgamesh in the Twenty-First Century (2000-2009) -- Poetic Versions in English and French -- A New Focus -- Gilgamesh as Ritual Drama -- Two Fictional Re-Visions -- The Politicization of Gilgamesh -- Conclusion -- Chronology -- Notes -- Index.