The Harps that Once.: Sumerian Poetry in Translation

Jacobsen, Thorkild

ISBN 10: 0300072783 / ISBN 13: 9780300072785

Verlag: Yale University Press (edition Reprint), 1997

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Inhaltsangabe:

The eminent Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen, author of Treasures of Darkness, here presents translations of ancient Sumerian poems written near the end of the third millennium b.c.e., including a number of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The themes developed in the poems—quite possibly the earliest poems extant—are those that have fascinated humanity since the time people first began to spin stories: the longings of young lovers; courage in battle; joy at the birth of a child; the pleasures of drink and song.

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The late Thorkild Jacobsen was professor of Assyriology emeritus at Harvard University

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Titel: The Harps that Once.: Sumerian Poetry in ...
Verlag: Yale University Press (edition Reprint)
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: Reprint.