Voices From the Clay: The Development of Assyro-Babylonian Literature
by: Fiore, Silvestro

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press,, 1st pbk., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 254 pages, b&w illustrations. This volume is a study of Mesopotamian literature from the beginnings of the Bronze Age to the fall of Babylon as an independent state in the 6th century BCE. Part I of this volume deals with the history and culture of the region from the Sumerians to the Persian conquests. Part II treats the development of poetic forms and the mythology and religion upon which much of the poetry is based. Clean copy.