Akkadian love literature of the third and second millennium BCE
1. Verfasser: |
Wasserman, Nathan.
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Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz,
2016.
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Umfang/Format: |
289 pages : 29 illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Schriftenreihe: |
Leipziger altorientalistische Studien
Bd 4 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Akkadian love literature : an overview. The scope of this study
- Thematic and temporal classification of the corpus
- Characterization of the corpus
- Love and attraction in the corpus
- Semantic fields (other than love) typical of the corpus
- Key metaphors and motifs
- The corpus. The core group of Akkadian love literature : dialogues, monologues, descriptive compositions
- Incipits of Akkadian love literature : catalogues
- Manipulative compositions concerning love and sex : incantations.