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Front Cover 1 Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature 3 Copyright Page 4 Contents 6 List of plates 8 Preface 9 Acknowledgements 11 Notes for non-Assyriologist readers 12 Abbreviations 13 Chronological chart 14 Map 15 Introduction 16 Part I: The Sumero-Akkadian tradition of the third and early second millennia 24 1. The Cosmological Articulation of Sexuality 25 2. Masculine Sexuality in Sumerian Literature 35 3. Enki and Ninhursaga: A Myth of Male Lust? 44 4. From Adolescence to Maturity: The Myth of Enlil and Ninlil 56 5. Phallicism in Sumerian Literature 62 6. Femininity and Eroticism in Sumerian Literature 69 7. The Bridal Songs 78 8. Inanna and Her Brother 94 9. Inanna Rejoicing in Her Vulva 104 10. ‘My Consort, Maid Inanna, Lady, Voluptuousness of Heaven and Earth’ 111 11. ‘Words of Seduction’: Courtly Love Poetry 125 12. The Rites of Divine Love 144 13. L’amour Libre or Sacred Prostitution? 161 14. Liminal Sexuality: Eunuchs, Homosexuals and the Common Prostitute 171 Part II: Sources from the later second and first millennia 184 15. Eroticism in Akkadian Literature 185 16. Ballads, Hymns and Dialogues: Akkadian Love Poetry 192 17. Love Magic an

Author

Gwendolyn Leick

Published

2003

Language

EN