Enheduanna: Poet and Priestess
- Enheduanna’s Background
- Women in the Ancient World
- Enheduanna as Princess and Priestess of Nanna in Ur and Uruk
- Daughter of Sargon, Aunt of Naram-Sin
- A Summary of The Exaltation of Inanna
- "Exordium": Introduction, Invocations, and Praise of Inanna’s "Me’s"
- "The Argument": Innana’s Banishment
- The Appeal to Nanna-Suen and the Indictment of Lugalanne
- The Appeal to Inanna and the Restoration of the Temple
- "Peroration": The Summation and Formal Conclusion of the Poem
- Interpretation and Issues
- What does this mean to us?
- The Legitimacy of the Ruler
- The Preservation of the City and the Temple
- Unification and Sargon’s Achievement