261 Forgotten Women of Literature - Enheduanna (with Charles Halton)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

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🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Jacke and special guest Charles Halton take a look at the poetry of Enheduanna (2286-2252 BC), a high priestess in ancient Mesopotamia who is the earliest known poet whose name has been recorded. Charles Halton (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College) is the co-author of Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors. He is currently the managing editor of Marginalia, a magazine of intellectual culture and a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello. She was born the daughter of a famous Mesopotamian king and she became a high priestess living in the Sumerian city state of Ur.
0:19.0	One of her tasks was to write temple hymns or at least assemble them in some form and she wrote some
0:24.8	original poetry as well. She also is the first poet known to have ascribed her own name to
0:31.1	her works and as such she can stand as history's first known poet.
0:37.6	Her name was an Edwanna and she lived more than 4,000 years ago.
0:42.6	But who was this remarkable figure?
0:45.1	What do we know about her?
0:46.4	And how much value do her poems have for us today?
0:49.8	We'll be joined today by Charles Halton, an expert in ancient civilizations and theology to help us answer
0:56.8	these questions.
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