Enheduana

Author : Sophus Helle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300264173

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Enheduana by Sophus Helle Pdf

The first complete translation of the collected works of Enheduana, the earliest known author in the history of world literature Enheduana was a high priestess and royal princess who lived in Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, about 2300 BCE. Not only does Enheduana have the distinction of being the first author whose name we know, but the poems attributed to her are hymns of great power. They are a rare flash of the female voice in the often male-dominated ancient world, treating themes that are as relevant today as they were four thousand years ago: exile, social disruption, the power of storytelling, gender-bending identities, the devastation of war, and the terrifying forces of nature. This book is the first complete translation of her poems from the original Sumerian. Sophus Helle's translations replicate the intensity and imagery of the original hymns--literary time bombs that have lain buried for millennia. In addition to his translations, Helle provides background on the historical context in which Enheduana's poems were composed and circulated, the works' literary structure and themes, and their reception in both the ancient and the modern world. Unjustly forgotten for millennia, Enheduana's poems are essential reading for anyone interested in the literary history of women, religion, the environment, gender, motherhood, authorship, and empire.

Author : Enheduanna,Betty De Shong Meador
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0292752423

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Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart by Enheduanna,Betty De Shong Meador Pdf

Around 2,300 BC Enheduanna was high priestess to the moon god Nanna at his temple in Ur, a position she held for almost forty years. This volume translates Enheduanna's three devotional poems to the goddess Inanna accompanied by an extensive commentary and discussion which places these highly personal and unique expressions within the context of Sumerian culture and religion. The author highlights the importance of the poems and the princess for our understanding of the place of women in Near Eastern society and religion.

Author : Nicole Maria Brisch,Fumi Karahashi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514821

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Women and Religion in the Ancient Near East and Asia by Nicole Maria Brisch,Fumi Karahashi Pdf

Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) is a peer-reviewed series devoted to the publication of monographs pertaining to all aspects of the history, culture, literature, religion, art, and archaeology of the Ancient Near East, from the earliest historical periods to Late Antiquity. The aim of this series is to present in-depth studies of the written and material records left by the civilizations and cultures that populated the various areas of the Ancient Near East: Anatolia, Arabia, Egypt, Iran, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Syria. Thus, SANER is open to all sorts of works that have something new to contribute and which are relevant to scholars and students within the continuum of regions, disciplines, and periods that constitute the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies, as well as to those in neighboring disciplines, including Biblical Studies, Classics, and Ancient History in general.

Author : Enheduanna,Betty De Shong Meador
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015080898144

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Princess, Priestess, Poet by Enheduanna,Betty De Shong Meador Pdf

Living in 2300 BCE, Sumerian high priestess Enheduanna became the first author of historical record by signing her name to a collection of hymns written for forty-two temples throughout the southern half of ancient Mesopotamia, the civilization now known as Sumer. Each of her hymns confirmed to the worshipers in each city the patron deity's unique character and significance. The collected hymns became part of the literary canon of the remarkable Sumerian culture and were copied by scribes in the temples for hundreds of years after Enheduanna's death. Betty De Shong Meador offers here the first collection of original translations of all forty-two hymns along with a lengthy examination of the relevant deity and city, as well as an analysis of the verses themselves. She introduces the volume with discussions of Sumerian history and mythology, as well as with what is known about Enheduanna, thought to be the first high priestess to the moon god Nanna, and daughter of Sargon, founder of one of the first empires in human history.

Author : Amanda H. Podany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9780190059040

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Weavers, Scribes, and Kings by Amanda H. Podany Pdf

"This sweeping history of the ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Syria, Anatolia, Iran) takes readers on a journey from the creation of the world's first cities to the conquest of Alexander the Great. The book is built around the life stories of many ancient men and women, from kings, priestesses, and merchants to bricklayers, musicians, and weavers. Their habits of daily life, beliefs, triumphs, and crises, and the changes that they faced over time are explored through their written words and the archaeological remains of the buildings, cities, and empires in which they lived. Rather than chronicling three thousand years of kingdoms, the book instead creates a tapestry of life stories through which readers come to know specific individuals from many walks of life, and to understand their places within the broad history of events and institutions in the ancient Near East. These life stories are preserved on ancient cuneiform tablets, which allow us to trace, for example, the career of a weaver as she advanced to became a supervisor of a workshop, listen to a king trying to persuade his generals to prepare for a siege, and feel the pain of a starving young couple who were driven to sell all four of their young children into slavery during a famine. What might seem at first glance to be a remote and inaccessible ancient culture proves to be a comprehensible world, one that bequeathed to us many of our institutions and beliefs, a truly fascinating place to visit"--

Author : Charles Halton,Saana Svärd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052055

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Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia by Charles Halton,Saana Svärd Pdf

This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : Savage Tempest
Publisher : 3wordsfrom
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798201883928

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Covenant by Savage Tempest Pdf

Helping a stranger can get you killed. One... Space is a dangerous place filled with pirates and Reapers. Two... We still don’t have full control of our ship. But I refuse to stand by and watch an Alliance ship get destroyed by Reaper fighters. The crew says that we should mind our own business, but as the new captain of the Wraith—it’s my call. And I made a bad call. The stranger is way too powerful, and he knows far more about us than he should. He even knows the Wraith’s mission—unlike us. This mysterious stranger is willing to fill in the gaps of our missing memories. For a price. A price that might include laying waste to an entire planet—or worse… infecting the whole galaxy.

Author : Paul F. Bandia,James Hadley,Siobhán McElduff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003831815

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Translation and the Classic by Paul F. Bandia,James Hadley,Siobhán McElduff Pdf

Through a range of accessible and innovative chapters dealing with a spectrum of genres, authors, and periods, this volume seeks to examine the complex relationship between translation and the classic, and how translation makes and remakes (and sometimes invents) classic works for new audiences across space and time. Translation and the Classic is the first volume in a two-volume series examining how classic works fare in translation, how translation is different when it engages with classic texts, and how classic texts can be shaped, understood in new ways, or even created through the process of translation. Although other collections have covered some of this territory, they have done so in partial ways or with a focus on Greek, Roman, and Arabic texts or translations. This collection alone takes the reader from 1000 BCE up to the digital age in a sequence of chapters that encompass areas including philosophy, children’s literature, and pseudotranslation. It asks us to consider translation not just as a mechanism of distribution, but as one of the primary ways that the classic is created and understood by multiple audiences. This book is essential reading for those taking Translation Studies courses at the senior undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as courses outside Translation Studies such as Comparative Literature and Literary Studies.

Author : William W. Hallo,J. J. A. van Dijk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Sumerian language
ISBN : LCCN:02610871

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The Exaltation of Inanna by William W. Hallo,J. J. A. van Dijk Pdf

Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin,Jean Macintosh Turfa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1583 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317219903

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Women in Antiquity by Stephanie Lynn Budin,Jean Macintosh Turfa Pdf

This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps, and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia, Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia. Women's experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to religious ritual and practice, to motherhood, childbirth, sex, and building a career. Forensic evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of ancient women. Women in Antiquity is edited by two experts in the field, and is an invaluable resource to students of the ancient world, gender studies, and women's roles throughout history.

Author : John Potts
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487541361

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The Near-Death of the Author by John Potts Pdf

In the modern world of networked digital media, authors must navigate many challenges. Most pressingly, the illegal downloading and streaming of copyright material on the internet deprives authors of royalties, and in some cases it has discouraged creativity or terminated careers. Exploring technology’s impact on the status and idea of authorship in today’s world, The Near-Death of the Author reveals the many obstacles facing contemporary authors. John Potts details how the online culture of remix and creative reuse operates in a post-authorship mode, with little regard for individual authorship. The book explores how developments in algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) have yielded novels, newspaper articles, musical works, films, and paintings without the need of human authors or artists. It also examines how these AI achievements have provoked questions regarding the authorship of new works, such as Does the author need to be human? And, more alarmingly, Is there even a need for human authors? Providing suggestions on how contemporary authors can endure in the world of data, the book ultimately concludes that network culture has provoked the near-death, but not the death, of the author.

Author : Cass Dalglish
Publisher : CALYX Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0934971927

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Humming the Blues by Cass Dalglish Pdf

"Inspired by Nin-me-'sar-ra, Enheduanna's song to Inanna."

Author : Susanne Paulus
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614910992

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Back to School in Babylonia by Susanne Paulus Pdf

This volume—the companion book to the special exhibition Back to School in Babylonia of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago—explores education in the Old Babylonian period through the lens of House F in Nippur, excavated jointly by the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania in the early 1950s and widely believed to have been a scribal school. The book's twenty essays offer a state-of-the-art synthesis of research on the history of House F and the educational curriculum documented on the many tablets discovered there, while the catalog's five chapters present the 126 objects included in the exhibition, the vast majority of them cuneiform tablets.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789144239

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The Sumerians by Paul Collins Pdf

The Sumerians are widely believed to have created the world’s earliest civilization on the fertile floodplains of southern Iraq from about 3500 to 2000 BCE. They have been credited with the invention of nothing less than cities, writing, and the wheel, and therefore hold an ancient mirror to our own urban, literate world. But is this picture correct? Paul Collins reveals how the idea of a Sumerian people was assembled from the archaeological and textual evidence uncovered in Iraq and Syria over the last one hundred fifty years. Reconstructed through the biases of those who unearthed them, the Sumerians were never simply lost and found, but reinvented a number of times, both in antiquity and in the more recent past.

Author : Carol S. Lipson,Roberta A. Binkley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780791485033

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Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks by Carol S. Lipson,Roberta A. Binkley Pdf

Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.