The Harps that Once... : Sumerian Poetry in Translation
Ingram
Yale University Press
9780300072785
0-300-07278-3
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.
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of compositions that have never before been published in translation. The themes developed in the poemsquite possibly the earliest poems extantare 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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