Author : Agnete W. Lassen
Publisher : Yale Babylonian Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781734342000
Book Description
In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.