University of Pennsylvania Press
Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
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Sumerian Mythology: A Study of Spiritual and Literary Achievement in the Third Millennium B.C.
Reviews (10)
7 August 2015they lived a happy live.
I feel so blessed that the cunniform has been translated and published in paperbacks.
29 April 2015Five Stars
This is a history book and cannot be described as requested.
13 April 2015Five Stars
An interesting mithological approach about the beginning of history..
25 March 2015Blah blah
The text was easy to read and I very much enjoyed the pictures of sumerian tablets.
26 January 2015An original but great archaeologist
Samuel Noah Kramer was an early archaeologist but should not be discounted as unreliable for that reason.
22 December 2014Save your money, better books out there!
While the book is very informative, and gives great notations to other on other sources of further reading.
28 November 2014OK in parts, but not enough ACTUAL translation. ...
OK in parts, but not enough ACTUAL translation.
22 October 2014and putting together the most coherent versions yet of the great myths of Sumerian civilization
Kramer spent a lifetime piecing together the scattered cuneiform tablets of Sumer, translating them, and putting together the most coherent versions yet of the great myths of Sumerian civilization.
3 August 2014Three Stars
Ok book a little difficult to read..
23 July 2014Sumerians became Greeks...
If you love Greek mythology you'll recognize everything they wrote about in the first few pages of this book.