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The earliest named author in the whole of human history was a woman.

She lived over 4,400 years ago in Mesopotamia.

She was a poet, a priestess, and a princess, Let's talk about myths, welcome. This is Let's Talk About Myths, Baby, and I'm your resident, furious, feminist, live.

And today I am here not with myths or even real people from the ancient Greek world, but one that is much, much older.

We're heading southeast now, across the Mediterranean and into Southwest Asia, to an ancient people whose land lay between two rivers, and where we

find the first recorded author in all of human history, a woman named Edwana.

But before we get to her, just a little bit of news.

Quite appropriately, we are moving directly from Bronze Age ancient Iraq into Bronze Age Greece

and the wider Mediterranean.

Next month, we are returning to the now annual tradition of special research

series. This time, it's not in January because I gained some sense, and it is covering the Bronze Age

and its collapse. There's a trailer for it in your feeds right now, but I will tell you a little bit more here.

For the month of April, we are going to be looking at the broad history of Bronze Age Greece, some of the wider Mediterranean, and then it's collapse.

Because the Bronze Age ended dramatically in a series of events and disruptions that changed

the face of the ancient Mediterranean in a way that has not been seen since.

The ancient people who thrived during this period, the Mycenaeans and the Minoans laid the

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