Mesopotamian Literature

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CHARACTERISTICS

• It was a writing with proto-


literary purposes
• The cultures that formed it
developed the first known
WHAT IS IT? forms of writing.
Literature • His works were carved in
Mesopotamian is stone and clay
the • writing used was cuneiform
artistic heritage
• The signs of his writing had
represented in
syllabic and ideological
literary works that value, for this reason,
left humanity deciphering them was a
the integration of complex task.
the • The presence of the
cultures of the mythological, religious and
Sumerian legendary element in their
peoples, stories, in which the life,
Akkadians, personality and traits of
Assyrians and their gods, the mythical
Babylonians who origins and the work of the
they dominated creation of man are alluded
the to.
The coexistence between the Akkadians and Sumerians led to writing going from being
pictographic to being phonetic and later leading to the writing common to both languages,
cuneiform.

GEOGRAPHIC
AL
LOCATION the
Mesopotamian Sumerian,
literature originated MESOPOTA Akkadian,
in the ancient Assyrian and
kingdom of MICA Babylonian
Babylon, LITERATURE peoples who
approximately 3000 dominated the
BC territory of ancient
Mesopotamia,
today Iraq and
Syria.

The most important


authors
representative were:
Nebuchadnezzar II
and
Nabopolassar.

Types of stories :
• Myths: stories about their
Outstanding
gods (Enlil, Ninhursag and
works
The Enuma
Enki).
• Hymns: in praise of their Elish The Epic
gods, kings and their of Erra
cities. The poem of
• Lamentations: songs about Atrahasis
catastrophic events such Gilgamesh's
as destruction of cities, poem
wars, abandonment of
Zú's poem The
temples and floods.
Code of
• Religious: poems to their
Hammurabi
gods (Enuma Elish, Erra
and Atrahasis)
• Epics: Gilgamesh poem,
one of the first writings in
universal history

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