Animal agents in Sumerian literature (original) (raw)

Nature Engaged and Disengaged The Case of Animals in Mesopotamian Literatures

Seth Richardson

“Nature Engaged and Disengaged: The Case of Animals in Mesopotamian Literatures,” pp. 11–40 in Impious Dogs, Ridiculous Monkeys and Exquisite Fish – Evaluative Perception and Interpretation of Animals in Ancient and Medieval Thought, ed. Johannes Pahlitzsch and Tristan Schmidt. Berlin: DeGruyter., 2019

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Creation of Animals in Sumerian Mythology

Peeter Espak

Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World, 2019

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Cows of Battle, Urinating Lions, and Frightened Falcons: Unexpected Metaphors in Sumerian Literary Compositions.

Judith Pfitzner

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"Natura, finzione, satira: fiabe e favole di animali nel mondo antico" ["Nature, fiction, satire: Animal fairytales and fables in the ancient world"]. "Nature in the Ancient World". Ufficio Scolastico per la Lombardia, Seminar for High School Teachers in the Classics, 5-9 Sept. 2017.

Ioannis Konstantakos

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(Book Review): Animal Symbolism in Mesopotamia - A Contextual Approach. Chicako E. Watanabe

Pauline Albenda

Archiv fur Orientforschung, 2006

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ENKI AND THE SUMERIAN KINGSHIP - Folklore vol. 66, 2016, pp 198-201

Vladimir Sazonov

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The Dual Role of Animals in Medieval Hebrew Animal Fables: Animals as a Subject and an Object

Revital Refael-vivante

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The Evil Eye of Humans, Animals, and Demons in Sumerian Literature

Zach Kotze

Asian and African Studies, 2021

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The Seven Attendants of Hendursaĝa: A study of animal symbolism in Mesopotamian cultures (draft)

Lorenzo Verderame

L. Verderame, The Seven Attendants of Hendursaĝa: A study of animal symbolism in Mesopotamian cultures, L. Feliu - F. Karahashi - G. Rubio, The First Ninety Years: A Sumerian Celebration in Honor of Miguel Civil (SANER 12), De Gruyter, Berlin, 2017, 396-415, 2017

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A Question of Life and Death: The Aesopic Animal Fables on Why Not to Kill

Tua Korhonen

Humanities, 2017

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Dog-men, Bear-men, and the Others: Men acting as Animals in Hittite Festival Texts

Alice Mouton

published in: L. Recht and C. Tsouparopoulou (eds), Fierce lions, angry mice and fat-tailed sheep: Animal encounters in the ancient Near East, 2021, pp. 79-94, https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/328721

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“Soundscapes, Portentous Calls and Bird Symbolism in the Gilgameš Epic.” Journal of Near Eastern Studies (2022).

Adam E. Miglio

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The Sumerian Mythographic Tradition and Its Implications for Genesis 1-11

Eric Smith

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On the Time of Composition of the Hitherto Undated Sumerian Myths

Peeter Espak

Studia Orientalia Tartuensia, 2019

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Lost in a Forest of Symbols: Can Some Animal, Bird, Tree or Djinn Help us Understand Myth and Folklore?

alok bhalla

2010

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The Animal Voice Behind the Animal Fable

Naama Harel

2011

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The Development and Meaning of the Epic of Gilgamesh: An Interpretive Essay

Tzvi Abusch

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001

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173. 668-626, Sumerian Mythology .pdf

Eahr Joan

Joan, Eahr Amelia. Re-Genesis Encyclopedia: Synthesis of the Spiritual Dark– Motherline, Integral Research, Labyrinth Learning, and Eco–Thealogy. Part I. Revised Edition II, 2018. CIIS Library Database. (RGS.)

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Richey, Madadh. 2018.* Ugaritic monsters I: The ˁatūku “Bound One” and its Sumerian parallels. Ugarit-Forschungen 49: 333-65. [*published February 2020]

Madadh Richey

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Valk, Jonathan. The Eagle and the Snake, or anzû and bašmu? Another Mythological Dimension in the Epic of Etana. JAOS 140.4 (2020): 889-900.

Jonathan Valk

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2020

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Hero, Field Master, King: Animal Mastery in Hittite Texts and Iconography

Billie Jean Collins

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Humans and Animals: Descriptions of Wild Mammals in Akkadian Literature

Joonas Hirvonen

Humans and Animals: Descriptions of Wild Mammals in Akkadian Literature, 2024

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A Study of Three Animals in some European Fairy Tales

Bernard Montoneri

Hung Kuang Journal, 2006

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Animals and their Relation to Gods, Humans and Things in the Ancient World

Sanae Ito

Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History, 2019

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The World of the Sumerian Mother Goddess: An Interpretation of Her Myths

Therese Rodin

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Eloquent Alogia: Animal Narrators in Ancient Greek Literature

Tom Hawkins

Humanities, 2017

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Introduction: encountering animals in the ancient Near East

Laerke Recht, Christina Tsouparopoulou

Fierce lions, angry mice and fat-tailed sheep: Animal encounters in the ancient Near East, 2021

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A Comparative Study on the Stages of Myths Where Nature Appears Sympathetic in Greek & Persian Myths

International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies [IJCLTS]

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The lion(ess?), the weeping, and the warrior trope: images of animals mourning in the Iliad, the Epic of Gilgameš, and beyond

Joseph Barber

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 2024

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'The Animal Fable and Greek Iambus: Ainoi and Half-Ainoi in Archilochus'. In Werner, C. and Sebastini, B. (eds) Gêneros poéticos na Grécia antiga: Confluências e fronteiras. Humanitas (2014): 49–77.

Laura Swift

forthcoming in Gêneros poéticos na Grécia antiga: Confluências e fronteiras, ed. B. Sebastini and C. Werner (Humanitas): 49-77, 2014

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“The Separation of Wild Animal Nature and Human Nature in Gilgamesh.”

Patrick Barron

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The God Enki in Sumerian Royal Ideology and Mythology

Peeter Espak

2010

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THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH

Anbr Cama

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A Contribution to the History of Interaction of Akkadian and Sumerian Literature: Enki and Ninmaḫ and Atraḫasis

David Danzig

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"Monstrous Identities - narrative strategies in Lugale and some reflections on Sumerian religious narrative". In Narratives of Egypt and the Near East. Literary and Linguistic Approaches. Orientalia Lovaniensia 189. Leuven: Peeters 2011

Laura Feldt

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