Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature

ISBN-13: 9780415065344 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 336 str.

Gwendolyn Leick

Opis

By interpreting the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources from ancient Mesopotamia, this text provides insight into a world with fundamentally different attitudes to eroticism. The sophisticated literary texts which survive - poems, songs, myths, narratives and incantations - offer a range of perspectives on the subject of love and sensuality.

Recenzje

'In this excellent study, Gwendolyn Leick presents an extensive body of Sumerian an dAkkadian cuneiform poems, magic spells, myths and stories bearing on a wide range of sexual themes.' – Antiquity

Spis treści

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Notes for Non-Assyriologist readers Abbreviations Chronological Chart Map Introduction Part I: The Sumero-Akkadian tradition of the third and early second millennium, The cosmological articulation of sexuality 1. Masculine sexuality in Sumerian Literature 2. Femininity and Eroticism in Sumerian Literature Part II: Sources from the later second and first millennium Glossary Illustrations Bibliography

O autorze

Dr Gwendolyn Leick