[PDF] Myths From Mesopotamia eBook

Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199538360

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The stories translated here all of ancient Mesopotamia, and include not only myths about the Creation and stories of the Flood, but also the longest and greatest literary composition, the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is the story of a heroic quest for fame and immortality, pursued by a man of great strength who loses a unique opportunity through a moment's weakness. So much has been discovered in recent years both by way of new tablets and points of grammar and lexicography that these new translations by Stephanie Dalley supersede all previous versions. -- from back cover.

Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian
ISBN : 9780192835895

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Author : Charles Penglase
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134729308

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Examines the Mesopotamian influence on Greek mythology in literary works of the epic period, concentrating in particular on journey myths. A major contribution to the understanding of the colourful myths involved.

Author : Matt Clayton
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2020-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781952191176

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This book includes two captivating manuscripts: Mesopotamian Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Myths Sumerian Mythology: Captivating Myths of Gods, Goddesses, and Legendary Creatures of Ancient Sumer and Their Importance to the Sumerians

Author : Walter Mattfeld
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0557885302

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Scholarly proposals are presented for the pre-biblical origin in Mesopotamian myths of the Garden of Eden story. Some Liberal PhD scholars (1854-2010) embracing an Anthropological viewpoint have proposed that the Hebrews have recast earlier motifs appearing in Mesopotamian myths. Eden's garden is understood to be a recast of the gods' city-gardens in the Sumerian Edin, the floodplain of Lower Mesopotamia. It is understood that the Hebrews in the book of Genesis are refuting the Mesopotamian account of why Man was created and his relationship with his Creators (the gods and goddesses). They deny that Man is a sinner and rebel because he was made in the image of gods and goddesses who were themselves sinners and rebels, who made man to be their agricultural slave to grow and harvest their food and feed it to them in temple sacrifices thereby ending the need of the gods to toil for their food in the city-gardens of Edin in ancient Sumer.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292707948

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Ancient Mesopotamia was a rich, varied and highly complex culture whose achievements included the invention of writing and the development of sophisticated urban society. This book offers an introductory guide to the beliefs and customs of the ancient Mesopotamians, as revealed in their art and their writings between about 3000 B.C. and the advent of the Christian era. Gods, goddesses, demons, monsters, magic, myths, religious symbolism, ritual, and the spiritual world are all discussed in alphabetical entries ranging from short accounts to extended essays. Names are given in both their Sumerian and Akkadian forms, and all entries are fully cross-referenced. A useful introduction provides historical and geographical background and describes the sources of our knowledge about the religion, mythology and magic of "the cradle of civilisation".

Author : Rupert Matthews
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2009-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1615312358

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Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was home to some of the world’s first cities and empires. This book beautifully describes the Ancient Mesopotamians, deftly combining dramatic illustrations of their myths with factual explanations about how people really lived at the time.

Author : Stephanie Dalley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198149460

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Influence from Mesopotamia on adjacent civilizations has often been proposed on the basis of scattered similarities. For the first time a wide-ranging assessment from 3000 BC to the Middle Ages investigates how similarities arose in Egypt, Palestine, Anatolia, and Greece. The development of writing for accountancy, astronomy, devination, and belles lettres emanated from Mesopotamians who took their academic traditions into countries beyond their political control. Each country soon transformed what it received into its own, individual culture. When cuneiform writing disappeared, Babylonian cults and literature, now in Aramaic and Greek, flourished during the Roman Empire. The Manichaeans adapted the old traditions which then perished under persecution, but traces persist in Hermetic works, court narratives and romances, and in the Arabian Nights. When ancient Mesopotamia was rediscovered in the last century, British scholars were at the forefront of international research. Public excitement has been reflected in pictures and poems, films and fashion.