“If stargazing was an attempt to read the writing of the gods, poetry appears to have been an attempt to communicate with the divine. #Enheduanna’s most recent translator, Sophus Helle, describes how #Sumerian poetry attempted “to change the world, by invoking the gods and enlisting their help.’”
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/she-measures-heavens-and-outlines-earth

#histodon #Mesopotamie #femmes #Enheduanna, première poétesse de l'Histoire

Une ressource du Louvre pour aborder autrement l’histoire des premiers États
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https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/les-odyssees/les-odyssees-du-louvre-enheduanna-premiere-poetesse-de-l-histoire-8414674