Description
The 3 essays presented on this volume reveal the symbolic complexity and poetic visions of ancient Near Eastern mythology. The creator explores the interrelated themes of erotic desire, divine conflict, and death’s realm in selected ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian mythological narratives the use of recent methods of literary analysis. Topics include the development of desire within the Gilgamesh epic, a psychoanalytic option to ‘The Contendings of Horus and Seth’, and gender and the exercise of power within the stormy romance of Nergal and Ereshkigal. Walls’ fresh remedy of these three vital myths brings them to life for the specialist and mythology buff alike.