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One is called Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta. The longest Sumerian epic yet discovered, it is the source of important information about the history and culture of the Sumero-Iranian border area. According to this legend, Enmerkar, son of the sun god Utu, was envious of Aratta’s wealth…. Read More.
The lord of Aratta placed on his head the golden crown for Inana. But he did not please her like the lord of Kulaba. Aratta did not build for holy Inana-- unlike the Shrine E-ana, the jipar, the holy place, unlike brick-built Kulaba.
- Background
- The Matter of Aratta
- Conclusion
The Uruk Period, which saw the foundation and growth of cities throughout Mesopotamia, was followed by the Early Dynastic Period (2900-2334 BCE) during which Sumerian culture flourished. The city-states were then conquered by Sargon of Akkad (Sargon the Great, r. 2334-2279 BCE) and absorbed into his Akkadian Empire which fell to the Gutians in 2218...
Aratta is depicted in several Sumerian poems, pre-dating theMatter of Aratta, as a city of fabulous wealth which lay far beyond the boundaries of Sumer. Modern-day scholars tend to place it somewhere in ancient Elam, past Susa (in modern Iran). In the poems of the Matter of Aratta, it can only be reached by traversing over seven mountains and is a ...
Lugalbanda is best known today as the father of the hero Gilgamesh and husband of the goddess Ninsun from The Epic of Gilgamesh. In that story, Gilgamesh begins as a proud and haughty king who must learn humility through the loss of his friend Enkidu, but, in these tales, Lugalbanda is depicted from the beginning as a devout servant of the gods who...
- Joshua J. Mark
Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is a legendary Sumerian account, preserved in early post-Sumerian copies, composed in the Neo-Sumerian period (ca. 21st century BC). It is one of a series of accounts describing the conflicts between Enmerkar , king of Unug-Kulaba , and the unnamed king of Aratta .
Jul 3, 2014 · Enmerkar is the priest-king (en) of Uruk, and as such, the ritual husband of the Great Goddess Inanna, upon whose favor the city´s prosperity depends. But the city of Aratta, in the snow-capped mountains that border Mesopotamia is also under the protection of the Goddess, and ruled by an en devoted to Her as well.
This cursory examination of Enmerkar reveals an astonishingly advanced rhetorical culture in Mesopotamia. Finally, this argument demonstrates that Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta is more evidence of the extent and pervasiveness of rhetoric in the culture of ancient Mesopotamia.
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Dec 10, 2020 · This essay will demonstrate how both the cultural and temporal antecedents of classical rhetoric are linked to Mesopotamian writing by their shared use of similes, such as fable, aenigma, and parable as pardeigmae.
