The epigraph for chapter IV is from the version of Gilgamesh by N. K. Sanders (Penguin, 1960). The epigraph for chapter XVI is from the translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1939).
Some of these chapters appeared, in somewhat different form, in the fantasy magazine Black Gate. Thanks are due the editors, John O'Neill and Howard A. Jones-how many, they know and I haven't words to say.