Author: Jesse Hudson
Publisher: Noel Jesse Hudson
ISBN: 1718617488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
This Box set includes the first four books of the Novels of Ancient Sumeria series: The Prince of Eridu, The Prince and the Priestess, The Prince and the Prophet and The Prince and the Kings. This is the first in a seven-part series that will sweep you into the alluring and dangerous world of the first empire in history, an exotic and yet eerily familiar place that gave birth to many of the ideas that can still be found battling for hearts and minds among the people of the world even today. The story is experienced through the eyes of Ammon-shur, a prince of the ancient and exotic city of Eridu, who barely escapes a palace coup instigated by the shadowy and ruthless organization whose vile practices were decried for millennia by ancient Hebrew prophets, Greek philosophers and Roman sages alike. This wild adventure, based on the oldest written records of both Mediterranean and Mesopotamian sources, depicts a time when the protections of cultures and kingdoms were torn away by the sweeping changes in technology, religion and climate which pushed ancient peoples into bloody conflict with one another and led directly to the dissemination of the stories of heroes and prophets which still circulate in Western thought today.
Novels of Ancient Sumeria Box Set 1
Author: Jesse Hudson
Publisher: Noel Jesse Hudson
ISBN: 1718617488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
This Box set includes the first four books of the Novels of Ancient Sumeria series: The Prince of Eridu, The Prince and the Priestess, The Prince and the Prophet and The Prince and the Kings. This is the first in a seven-part series that will sweep you into the alluring and dangerous world of the first empire in history, an exotic and yet eerily familiar place that gave birth to many of the ideas that can still be found battling for hearts and minds among the people of the world even today. The story is experienced through the eyes of Ammon-shur, a prince of the ancient and exotic city of Eridu, who barely escapes a palace coup instigated by the shadowy and ruthless organization whose vile practices were decried for millennia by ancient Hebrew prophets, Greek philosophers and Roman sages alike. This wild adventure, based on the oldest written records of both Mediterranean and Mesopotamian sources, depicts a time when the protections of cultures and kingdoms were torn away by the sweeping changes in technology, religion and climate which pushed ancient peoples into bloody conflict with one another and led directly to the dissemination of the stories of heroes and prophets which still circulate in Western thought today.
Publisher: Noel Jesse Hudson
ISBN: 1718617488
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 669
Book Description
This Box set includes the first four books of the Novels of Ancient Sumeria series: The Prince of Eridu, The Prince and the Priestess, The Prince and the Prophet and The Prince and the Kings. This is the first in a seven-part series that will sweep you into the alluring and dangerous world of the first empire in history, an exotic and yet eerily familiar place that gave birth to many of the ideas that can still be found battling for hearts and minds among the people of the world even today. The story is experienced through the eyes of Ammon-shur, a prince of the ancient and exotic city of Eridu, who barely escapes a palace coup instigated by the shadowy and ruthless organization whose vile practices were decried for millennia by ancient Hebrew prophets, Greek philosophers and Roman sages alike. This wild adventure, based on the oldest written records of both Mediterranean and Mesopotamian sources, depicts a time when the protections of cultures and kingdoms were torn away by the sweeping changes in technology, religion and climate which pushed ancient peoples into bloody conflict with one another and led directly to the dissemination of the stories of heroes and prophets which still circulate in Western thought today.
The Prince of Eridu
Author: Jesse Hudson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530954148
Category : Erech (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
When the jealous High Priest of Enki murders the King during a holy festival and stages a takeover of the palace, the Crown Prince, Ammon-shur, must flee for his life with nothing more than the clothes on his back. His faithful bodyguard, Balashi, saves him from capture and death at the hands of his enemies, and together the two make their way to the ancient city of Uruk, home of the ancient and powerful temple of Inanna. Ammon goes to the temple to seek allies that he might recruit to his cause to unseat the High Priest of Enki and retake his throne. While at the temple he meets Iltani, the fascinating and beautiful High Priestess of Inanna. Ammon scarcely gets to know the High Priestess before discovering that she is enmeshed in her own struggles against the members of the temple council, who maintain her as a powerless figurehead. Far from finding aid for his own cause, Ammon finds himself promising to help Iltani free herself from the influence of the temple council as well as to help her investigate a darker plot...
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530954148
Category : Erech (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
When the jealous High Priest of Enki murders the King during a holy festival and stages a takeover of the palace, the Crown Prince, Ammon-shur, must flee for his life with nothing more than the clothes on his back. His faithful bodyguard, Balashi, saves him from capture and death at the hands of his enemies, and together the two make their way to the ancient city of Uruk, home of the ancient and powerful temple of Inanna. Ammon goes to the temple to seek allies that he might recruit to his cause to unseat the High Priest of Enki and retake his throne. While at the temple he meets Iltani, the fascinating and beautiful High Priestess of Inanna. Ammon scarcely gets to know the High Priestess before discovering that she is enmeshed in her own struggles against the members of the temple council, who maintain her as a powerless figurehead. Far from finding aid for his own cause, Ammon finds himself promising to help Iltani free herself from the influence of the temple council as well as to help her investigate a darker plot...
A Universal History of the Destruction of Books
Author: Fernando Báez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.
The Literature of Ancient Sumer
Author: Jeremy A. Black
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199296330
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199296330
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Sumerian is the oldest written language of ancient Iraq, first written down some 5,000 years ago. Its literature, encompassing narrative myths, lyrical hymns, proverbs and love poetry, provides a stimulating insight into the world's first urban civilization. This is a comprehensive collection.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: Susan Pollock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521575683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521575683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Innovative study of the early state and urban societies in Mesopotamia, c. 5000 to 2100 BC.
Sumer
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809498871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Surveys what is known about the ancient Babylonian civilization, looks at ruins and artifacts, and describes the work of archaeologists in the region
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780809498871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Surveys what is known about the ancient Babylonian civilization, looks at ruins and artifacts, and describes the work of archaeologists in the region
The Sumerians
Author: Jane Shuter
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432913311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
What is a ziggurat? How were the Sumerians riled? Why did the Sumerian civilization disappear? This book answers these questions and more. Learn what Sumerians wore, what they ate, how they traveled from place to place, and find out how we know about them today.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432913311
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
What is a ziggurat? How were the Sumerians riled? Why did the Sumerian civilization disappear? This book answers these questions and more. Learn what Sumerians wore, what they ate, how they traveled from place to place, and find out how we know about them today.
Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection
Author: Christopher Metcalf
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 164602009X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves. Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 164602009X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The first in a series of volumes publishing the Sumerian literary texts in the Schøyen Collection, this book makes available, for the first time, editions of seventeen cuneiform tablets, dating to ca. 2000 BCE and containing works of Sumerian religious poetry. Edited, translated, and annotated by Christopher Metcalf, these poems shed light on the interaction between cult, scholarship, and scribal culture in Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE. The present volume contains fourteen songs composed in praise of the various gods of the Mesopotamian pantheon; it is believed that these songs were typically performed in temple cults. Among them are a song in praise of Sud, goddess of the ancient Mesopotamian city Shuruppak; a song describing the statue of the protective goddess Lamma-saga in the “Sacred City” temple complex at Girsu; and a previously unknown hymn dedicated to the creator god Enki. Each text is provided in transliteration and translation and accompanied by hand-copies and images of the tablets themselves. Expertly contextualizing each song in Babylonian religious and literary history, this thoroughly competent editio princeps will prove a valuable tool for scholars interested in the literary and religious traditions of ancient Mesopotamia.
Sumerians
Author: Henry Freeman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1534611347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact. Inside you will read about... ✓ How We Know What We Know About Sumerians ✓ The Bronze Age – Sumer And Its Contemporaries ✓ How Did The Sumerians Become Civilized? ✓ How Long Were They Around ✓ Primer Of Impact Of Sumerian Ancient Civilization On Our World ✓ What Did They Look Like? ✓ What Shaped Their Worldview? And much more! Our journey relies on excavated and historical evidence to explore their productive fascinations with order and man’s place in the universe. Their application of impressive knowledge helps us unfold their mysterious civilization.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1534611347
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
A legendary civilization vanished under the Fertile Crescent and escaped a fate worse than death until Sumerologists questioned widely accepted truths. The Sumerians reemerged onto the extraordinary timeline of human history. Their tales of kings and gods, including the Epic of Gilgamesh, and their fearless trade in distant lands, during the remarkable Bronze Age, centered in the world’s first city-states that chronicled ancient rivalries and their enduring impact. Inside you will read about... ✓ How We Know What We Know About Sumerians ✓ The Bronze Age – Sumer And Its Contemporaries ✓ How Did The Sumerians Become Civilized? ✓ How Long Were They Around ✓ Primer Of Impact Of Sumerian Ancient Civilization On Our World ✓ What Did They Look Like? ✓ What Shaped Their Worldview? And much more! Our journey relies on excavated and historical evidence to explore their productive fascinations with order and man’s place in the universe. Their application of impressive knowledge helps us unfold their mysterious civilization.
Sumerians
Author: Captivating History
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647484590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This civilization is single-handedly responsible for some of the most major innovations in nearly every field relevant to maintaining a civilized society - this includes religion, lawmaking, architecture, schooling, art, literature, and even entertainment.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781647484590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This civilization is single-handedly responsible for some of the most major innovations in nearly every field relevant to maintaining a civilized society - this includes religion, lawmaking, architecture, schooling, art, literature, and even entertainment.