Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart

Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna

Hardcover, 256 pages

English language

Published Feb. 23, 2001 by University of Texas Press.

ISBN:
978-0-292-75241-2
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2 stars (1 review)

2 editions

Very interesting material, not so interesting book

2 stars

The subject matter of this book is fascinating but I found the book itself disorganized and not terribly well written, and the author seems to be projecting intensely onto Enheduanna from scant evidence.

While I don't know anything about Sumer, I found a lot of her scholarship kinda fishy, and frankly it had a bit of TERF-y smell (although that might just be a second-wave-feminist smell that has developed a bad association for me).

Subjects

  • Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE
  • Social history
  • Works by individual poets: classical, early & medieval
  • BCE to c 500 CE
  • Hamito-Semitic Literature
  • Literary Criticism
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Mesopotamia
  • Ancient, Classical & Medieval
  • Folklore & Mythology
  • Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
  • General
  • History and criticism
  • Inanna (Sumerian deity)
  • Sumerian poetry
  • Translations into English