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  Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (Penguin Classics) (Paperback) Translated by N.K. Sandars

  

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  Short Description for Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia This book comprises five poems dating from the height of the Babylonian civilization in the second millennium BC. They include "The New Babylonian Creation", "Inanna's Journey to Hell" and "Adapa: the Man".
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 06 June 1989
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Poetry Anthologies (various Poets) | Literary Studies: General | Folklore, Myths & Legends
  • ISBN 13: 9780140442496 ISBN 10: 0140442499
  • Sales rank: 1,047,325

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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 of Tiamat, "Inanna's Journey to Hell", in which the goddess of fertility descends into a gloomy wasteland of devils and darkness, and "Adapa: the Man", a story of man's fall from grace, not through disobedience but through blind obedience. N.K. Sanders also translated "The Epic of Gilgamesh".