Be My Baby in Babylonia: Girl Meets Boy and Vice Versa
Presented by Andrew George, Professor of Babylonian, University of London, SOAS.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
This lecture presents two Old Babylonian incantations in comparative perspective. The language and emotions of new love and sexual attraction are shared in compositions as diverse as Akkadian and Sumerian love incantations and popular music from nearly four thousand years later. The incantations are on tablets newly published in the speaker’s Mesopotamian Incantations and Related Texts. One is completely new, the other strangely familiar.
This audio recording was originally presented as an illustrated lecture. The video of this lecture is available on the OI YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/xYSqscmp_f0
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