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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…

anthropology of ancient Near EastDivine sexualitySumerian love songs: Dumuzi and Inannagender studieSettore M-STO/06 - Storia Delle ReligioniSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheAkkadian love compositionSumerian mythologySettore L-OR/03 - AssiriologiaSettore L-OR/01 - Storia Del Vicino Oriente Antico
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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

Sumerian literatureSettore M-STO/06 - Storia Delle ReligioniGilgamesh Enkidu and the NetherworldSettore M-DEA/01 - Discipline DemoetnoantropologicheSumerian MythologyAnthropology of Ancient Near EastReligious AnthropologyGilgameshSettore L-OR/03 - AssiriologiaSettore L-OR/01 - Storia Del Vicino Oriente Antico
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