Any Babylonian/Sumerian experts out there?

[adele.s]

I'm busily researching Sumerian and Babylonian history and mythology (for use in writing a fanfic, in addition to my natural curiosity)... I haven't found a handy source for some of the writings I want yet.

I've found Berossos and Manetho, Introduced and Translated : Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt by Gerald P. Verbrugghe, John M. Wickersham quite useful so far.

Is anyone else delving into this aspect of the series?

I'm also looking for any information about A. Mosshammer's Teubner edition of George Syncellus (Leipzig 1984). It is mentioned in a book review of the Verbrugghe/Wickersham book at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1997/97.06.11.html.

Yes, I know, I can't believe myself that I'm rooting around in all this dusty detail because of a fictional television series... but I've always had a passion for archae, paleo, and myth-ologies! :-D

Thanks for re-awakening that part of my personality, SG-1! Now, where did I put that coffee?
-- Adele

 

[PTeppic]

An interesting variation is David Rohl's "Legend: The Genesis of Civilisation" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/009979991X/) which takes the Mesopotamian/Sumerian legends in detail and maps them onto the earliest parts of the Bible.

 

[adele.s]

Thanks!

Don't have that one yet... maybe next paycheck.

I'm currently engrossed with:

The Sumerians, by C. Leonard Wooley
The Ancient Mediteraranean, by Michael Grant
The Sumerians, by Samuel Noah Kramer
and
Legacy The Search for Ancient Cultures, by Michael Wood (rereading this one; I've had it for years)



So many books, so little time...
-- Adele

 

[kelsi]

Anyone got a SIMPLE, accurate website address which might b OK just to find out major points/gods in Babylonian/Sumerian mythology?

 

[adele.s]

Websites...

There are plenty of sites out there. This one is more Babylonian rather than Sumerian, but...
http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/
-- Adele

 

[kelsi]

Thanx, I've bookmarked that page! Also, I found a great article on one of my reference CD's which lays it out really clearly as well. I keep meaning to get into Aztec's and Inca's, but their god's names are so complex!