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Book Review of Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (Penguin Classics)

Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia (Penguin Classics)
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Contents:
Acknowledgments
Plan of Babylon
Introduction to The Babylonian Creation
The Babylonian Creation
Note on The Sumerian Underworld
Introduction to Inanna's Journey to Hell
Inanna's Journey to Hell
Introduction to Adapa: the Man
Note on a Prayer to the Gods of Night
A Prayer to the Gods of Night
Glossary of Names