The World's Oldest Literature: Studies in Sumerian Belles-Lettres

by William W. Hallo

Literature begins at Sumer, we may say. Given that this ancient crossroads of tin and copper produced not only bronze and the entire Bronze Age, but also by neccesity, the first system of record-keeping and the technique of writing. Scribal schools served to propogate the new technique and their curriculum grew to create, preserve and transmit all manner of creative poetry. In a lifetime of research, the author has studied multiple aspects of this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004173811
• ISBN13: 9789004173811
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 800 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"