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Enheduanna: Voicing the Womanly Divine Recital and Tuneful Performance

SPEAKER 1: Harvard Study School.

SPEAKER 2: Enheduanna, Voicing the Amenable Divine. Dec 12,

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It's All Ancient History

At the end of the s BC, a man named Sargon tore through the middle east.

Sargon’s origins are obscure, steeped in layers of later myth, but he seems to have begun his career as the king of Agade, a city that probably lay somewhere in modern day Iraq, along the route of Tigris river.

King he may have been but Sargon remained unsatisfied; he mustered an army and embarked upon an unprecedented campaign of conquest.

Sargon began in Sumer, capturing the city states of Uruk, Umma, Lagash and Ur, extending his dominions till he reached the waters of the Arabian gulf. Then he marched south-east, into the deserts, to capture Elam before turning northward, up towards the source of the Euphrates, to take the ‘Upper Lands’ around Mari and Ebla. His armies may even have reached central Anatolia, a land his inscriptions describe as one of cedar forests and silver (snow-capped) mountains.

All in all, Sargon’s own inscriptions claim the capture of thirty-four cities.

Sargon was not a modest man, and nor was he a merciful one. The king imposed his own systems of law and administration onto the territories he had conquered, centralising power and uniting upper and lower Mesopotamia into what is often called the world’s first known empire.

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The Many Lives of Enheduana: Identity, Authorship, and the "World's First Poet."

). Illustration on the cover: Morton Dürr / Lars Horneman: Zenobia. København , p. 43, by courtesy of the authors. Powerful Women in the Ancient World. Perception and (Self)Presentation. Proceedings of the 8th Melammu Workshop, Kassel, 30 January – 1 February Edited by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe and Sebastian Fink Melammu Workshops and Monographs 4 © Zaphon, Enkingweg 36, Münster () All rights reserved. Printed in Germany. Printed on acid-free paper. ISBN (Buch) ISBN (E-Book) ISSN Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Kerstin Droß-Krüpe / Sebastian Fink Powerful Women in the Ancient World in the Light of the Sources Innana and En-ḫedu-ana: Mutual Empowerment and the Myth INNANA CONQUERS UR Annette Zgoll The Many Lives of Enheduana: Identity, Authorship, and the “World’s First Poet” Gina Konstantopoulos Šamḫat: Deconstructing Temple Prostitution One Woman at a Time Nicole Brisch Hatshepsut: The Feminine Horus and Daughter of Amun on the Throne of Atum David A. Warburton Bathsheba and Beyond: Harem Politics in the Ancient Near East Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones The Agency of Female Prophets in the Bible: Independent or Instrumental? Prophetic or Political? Martti Nissinen Women at the Heart