Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia by N.K. Sandars

Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia

N.K. Sandars

184 pages first pub 1971 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This book comprises five poems dating from the height of the Babylonian civilisation in the second millennium BC. They include "The New Babylonian Creation", which was recited at the new year festival in honour of the god Marduk and his conquest o...

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