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Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature
Edition: 1st
Author(s): Leick, Gwendolyn
ISBN10:  0415311616
ISBN13:  9780415311618
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  5/30/2003
Publisher(s): Routledge

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SummaryTable of Contents
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature allows a glimpse of a world with a sexual culture and erotic values very different from our own, through exploration of the earliest preserved written evidence on the subject - the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources of the 21st to 5th centuries BC. Drawing on sophisticated and astonishing literary texts - courtly love poems and bridal songs, myths, narratives and incantations - Gwendolyn Leick uncovers a fascinating range of perspectives on the subject of passion and pleasure. The reader is treated to eloquent and freely-expressed views on topics from prostitution, love magic and deviant sexual practice to gender, fertility and potency. This revealing and candid volume celebrates a wealth of erotic material from one of the world's earliest literate civilizations, and encompasses archaeological, religious, historical, anthropological and gender-based themes and approaches. It will be of interest to students and teachers.
List of plates
ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xii
Notes for non-Assyriologist readers xiii
Abbreviations xiv
Chronological chart xv
Map
xvi
Introduction 1(10)
Part I The Sumero-Akkadian tradition of the third and early second millennia
The Cosmological Articulation of Sexuality
11(10)
Masculine Sexuality in Sumerian Literature
21(9)
Enki and Ninhursaga: A Myth of Male Lust?
30(12)
From Adolescence to Maturity: The Myth of Enlil and Ninlil
42(6)
Phallicism in Sumerian Literature
48(7)
Femininity and Eroticism in Sumerian Literature
55(9)
The Bridal Songs
64(16)
Inanna and Her Brother
80(10)
Inanna Rejoicing in Her Vulva
90(7)
`My Consort, Maid Inanna, Lady, Voluptuousness of Heaven and Earth'
97(14)
`Words of Seduction': Courtly Love Poetry
111(19)
The Rites of Divine Love
130(17)
L'Amour Libre or Sacred Prostitution?
147(10)
Liminal Sexuality: Eunuchs, Homosexuals and the Common Prostitute
157(16)
Part II Sources from the later second and first millennia
Eroticism in Akkadian Literature
173(7)
Ballads, Hymns and Dialogues: Akkadian Love Poetry
180(13)
Love Magic and Potency Incantations
193(18)
Problematic Aspects of Sexuality: Sin and Pollution
211(9)
Witches, Demons and the Ambivalence of Love
220(12)
The Articulation of Sexual Jealousy
232(15)
Love and Eros in Akkadian Narrative Literature
247(23)
Glossary 270(6)
Notes 276(22)
Bibliography 298(13)
Index 311

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