Search results for "Sumerian"
showing 7 items of 7 documents
Antropologia religiosa e studi sul Vicino Oriente antico
2021
Dialogo tra antropologia religiosa e studi sul Vicino Oriente antico
Quando l'eroe disturba il mostro. Uno studio comparativo sulla figura del mostro-custode: Ḫubaba, Ladone e il serpente della Colchide
2013
Le città sumeriche e i loro dèi nella Bassa Mesopotamia
2020
Il contributo indaga il rapporto tra città sumeriche e divinità poliadi nella Mesopotamia del III millennio a.C.
“In quel giorno, in quella notte, in quell’anno”. Cosmogonie e cosmologie sumeriche e assiro-babilonesi
2020
The paper attempts to reconstruct the cosmogonic and cosmological doctrines of the Mesopotamian peoples over their three millennia of history. It focuses on both Sumerian and Akkadian sources that describe the origin, formation, and organization of the universe according to Mesopotamian religious thought.
Miti, culti, saperi. Per un'antropologia religiosa della Mesopotamia antica
2021
The theoretical and methodological approaches of Cultural and Social Anthropology have long since become indispensable for the study of classical antiquity, so much so that we can speak of a Historical Anthropology of the Ancient World. On the contrary, the dialogue between historians and philologists on the one hand and anthropologists, on the other hand, has been less developed concerning the cultures of the ancient Near East. There are several reasons for this lack of dialogue, the most important of which is the fact that the multilingual cuneiform textual corpus is still largely unpublished and characterized by philological difficulties that make it inaccessible to non-specialists. This…
Dall’alterità alla città. Regalità, sessualità e agricoltura in Gilgameš, Enkidu e gli Inferi
2021
Analisi antropologica del componimento mitologico sumerico Gilgamesh, Enkidu e gli Inferi
Il corpo sessuato delle dee. Agricoltura, pastorizia e mondo vegetale nella Mesopotamia antica
2021
Divine love is the central theme of many ancient Mesopotamian compositions. Both Sumerian and Akkadian texts poetically describe the love and sexual relationship between gods. The object of this study is to analyze the metaphorical language used to describe divine love relationships, focusing in particular on the use of images from agriculture, pastoralism, and the plant world. Such metaphors contribute to the creation and at the same time to the reinforcement of a sexual imaginary, not only divine but also human. Divine sexuality and the metaphors used to describe it would, over the millennia, become paradigms for understanding and thinking about human sexuality: male power and vigor, fema…