Mesopotamian Literature
Mesopotamian Literature
Mesopotamian Literature
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.
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