Women at the Dawn of History
Publisher: Babylonian Collection
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781734342000
Description: In the patriarchal world of ancient Mesopotamia, women were often represented in their relation to men - as mothers, daughters, or wives - giving the impression that a woman's place was in the home. But, as we explore in this volume, they were also authors and scholars, astute business-women, sources of expressions of eroticism, priestesses with access to major gods and goddesses, and regents who exercised power on behalf of kingdoms, states, and empires.