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Author Sandars, N. K. (Nancy K.), compiler

Title Poems of heaven and hell from Ancient Mesopotamia / translated and introduced by N. K. Sandars
Published Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971

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 MELB  891.900810937 S2131/P  AVAILABLE
Description 184 pages : map. ; 18 cm
Series The Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia Acknowledgments -- Plan of Babylon -- Introduction to The Babylonian Creation -- The Babylonian Creation -- Note on The Sumerian Underworld -- Introduction to Inanna's Journey to Hell -- Inanna's Journey to Hell -- Introduction to Adapa: the Man -- Note on a Prayer to the Gods of Night -- A Prayer to the Gods of Night -- Glossary of Names
Summary Translations of five poems dating from the height of Babylonian civilization in the second millennium B.C
Notes Includes bibliographical references
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also issued online
Subject Assyro-Babylonian poetry -- Translations into English.
English poetry -- Translations from Assyro-Babylonian
English poetry -- Translations from Sumerian
English poetry.
Sumerian poetry -- Translations into English.
Author Sandars, N. K. (Nancy K.)
LC no. 72192230
ISBN 0140442499