See See http://www.angelfire.com/mi/enheduanna for more information on Enheduanna, including links to her texts.
1. grad students share their annotated bibs
2. discussion questions: small groups
How could The Exaltation of Inanna have functioned as a political work?
“Except for William Hallo, those who have dealt with her work in any depth are quite naturally women scholars…” (52) Does this seem to imply an inherent male bias in the field of rhetoric? We can’t necessarily prove that Socrates was a real human, yet we take his works at face value - what prevents certain scholars from doing the same with Enheduanna?
Why do western philosophies divorce the mind from the body? What’s the origin and history behind this western separation? Why does this ideology remain present in the West? What are the advantages/disadvantages? (56)
According to Joseph Campbell, many ancient mythological texts have four functions: metaphysical (awe), cosmological (describes the universe), sociological (describes the order of society), and psychological (pedagogical). With these possible intents in mind, how does “The Exaltation of Inanna” use rhetoric (or does it use rhetoric) to accomplish these tasks?