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    The document summarizes Assyro-Babylonian literature from ancient Mesopotamia. It provides background that the Sumerians were the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia, followed by the Akkadians, which included the Assyrians and Babylonians. Assyro-Babylonian literature refers to the literature written in Akkadian dialects during the Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age. Major genres included hymns, prayers, laments, love poetry, epics, myths, and wisdom literature. Many works were inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform script. Two famous works discussed are the Creation Myth about the god Marduk and the Epic of Gilgamesh, considered

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    The document summarizes Assyro-Babylonian literature from ancient Mesopotamia. It provides background that the Sumerians were the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia, followed by the Akkadians, which included the Assyrians and Babylonians. Assyro-Babylonian literature refers to the literature written in Akkadian dialects during the Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age. Major genres included hymns, prayers, laments, love poetry, epics, myths, and wisdom literature. Many works were inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform script. Two famous works discussed are the Creation Myth about the god Marduk and the Epic of Gilgamesh, considered

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    The document summarizes Assyro-Babylonian literature from ancient Mesopotamia. It provides background that the Sumerians were the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia, followed by the Akkadians, which included the Assyrians and Babylonians. Assyro-Babylonian literature refers to the literature written in Akkadian dialects during the Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age. Major genres included hymns, prayers, laments, love poetry, epics, myths, and wisdom literature. Many works were inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform script. Two famous works discussed are the Creation Myth about the god Marduk and the Epic of Gilgamesh, considered

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    Assyro Babylonian Literature

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    The document summarizes Assyro-Babylonian literature from ancient Mesopotamia. It provides background that the Sumerians were the earliest civilization in Mesopotamia, followed by the Akkadians, which included the Assyrians and Babylonians. Assyro-Babylonian literature refers to the literature written in Akkadian dialects during the Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age. Major genres included hymns, prayers, laments, love poetry, epics, myths, and wisdom literature. Many works were inscribed on clay tablets in cuneiform script. Two famous works discussed are the Creation Myth about the god Marduk and the Epic of Gilgamesh, considered

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    The passage discusses the history and literature of ancient Mesopotamian civilizations like the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and Babylonians.

    The main genres of Assyro-Babylonian literature discussed are hymns, lamentations, prayers, incantations, love-lyrics, wisdom literature, and epics & myths.

    Two important literary works discussed are the Creation Myth centered around the god Marduk and the Descent into Hades involving the goddess Isthar.

    ASSYRO-BABYLONIAN

    LITERATURE
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    Danelenn S. Caangay
    Mesopotamia

    Sumerians are the earliest known civilization of


    Mesopotamia.
     Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians) was the next
    ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived
    civilization of Sumerians.
    Babylonia
     an ancient empire that existed in the Near East in
    Southern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and
    Euphrates rivers.
    Assyria
    bordered Babylonia on the North.
    The Assyrians spoke the same language and used the
    same writing systems as the Babylonians.
    Assyro-Babylonian Literature
     also known as Akkadian Literature

     is an ancient literature written in Akkadian language


    (Assyrian and Babylonian dialects) in Mesopotamia
    during the period spanning the Middle Bronze Age to
    the Iron Age (roughly the 23rd to 6th centuries BC).
    Assyro-Babylonian Literature

    Hymns Love-lyrics Epics &


    Prayers myths
    Lamentations Incantations Wisdom
    literature
    Most of what we have from Babylonians was
    inscribed in cuneiform with a metal stylus on
    tablets of clay, which formed the oldest
    written literary corpus of mankind.
    Examples of Cuneiform
    Literary Works
    The great “Creation Myth”
    - this myth centers around the sun-god Marduk who
    battled with Trainat, the salt-water ocean, from whose
    slain body he created heaven and earth. Later, Marduk
    created man from the blood of another rebellious god.
    The other dieties built a sanctuary to Marduk and
    hailed him lord with a list of fifty honorary titles. The
    recital of the epic was part of the annual New Year’s
    festival of the Babylonians.
    Literary Works
     “Descent into Hades”
    - Isthar, goddess of love, identified with the planet
    Venus, figures in many of the epics. It resembles the
    greek myth Persephone, in symbolizing the death of
    vegetation during winter and its revival with the return
    of the goddess in the spring.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh
    It is the most famous and most important epics,
    which first appears in Akkadian during the Old
    Babylonian period as a circa, 1,000 line epic known by
    its incipit, sutur eli sarri (Surpassing all other kings).
    It originated as a series of Sumerian legends and
    poems in cuneiform script dating back to the early
    3rd or late 2nd millenium BCE, which were later
    gathered into a longer Akkadian poem (the most
    complete version existing today, preserved on 12 clay
    tablets).
    The Epic of Gilgamesh
    The epic recounts the exploits of the hero Gilgamesh.
    It depicts his quest for the meaning of life and his
    futile struggle to avoid death.
    Gilgamesh wanted to have a name for himself. He also
    searched for everlasting life and dicovered that there
    is no permanence.
    Its philosophical conclusion is that death is
    inevitable. Man should try to enjoy life and make the
    best of his earthly lot.
    References

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    www.jstor.org
    en.m.wikipedia.org
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