You’ll hear in this week NRC Today our series Wild centuries, the beginning. One of the narrative series we made this year: perfect for the days around Christmas.
It’s been 4,200 years. King’s daughter Enheduana writes an angry poem and exchanges her divine husband for a goddess. Will that restore her power?
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For this episode, this literature was used, among other things:
Sophus Helle. ‘Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author’, Yale University Press, 2024.
Amanda H. Podany. ‘Weavers, Scribes, and Kings A New History of the Ancient Near East’, Oxford University Press, 2022.
Gina Konstantopoulos. ‘The Many Lives of Enheduana. Identity, Authorship, and the “World’s First Poet”’ in Kerstin Droß-Krüpe et al. (eds) Powerful Women in the Ancient World. Perception and (Self)Presentation, Zaphon 2021.
Annette Zgoll. ‘Innana and En-ḫedu-ana Mutual Empowerment and the myth INNANA CONQUERS UR’ in Kerstin Droß-Krüpe et al. (eds) Powerful Women in the Ancient World. Perception and (Self)Presentation, Zaphon 2021.
JN Postgate. ‘Early Mesopotamia. Society and economy at the dawn of history’, Routledge 1992 (reprint 2017).
Gwendolyn Leick. ‘Mesopotamia. The invention of the city’, Penguin 2001.
- Text and presentation:
- Hendrik Spiering
- Editing and direction:
- Mirjam van Zuidam
- Music, editing and mixing:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Image:
- Jeen Berting
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier
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