Frazer, Mary
(21. August 2024):
Ishtar.
In: Whitmarsh, Tim (ed.) :
Oxford Classical Dictionary Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Abstract
Ishtar/Inanna is the most important Mesopotamian goddess, attested in southern Babylonia from the late 4th millennium BCE until the end of cuneiform culture, and in the wider Near East from the end of the 3rd millennium on. Depending on time, place and context she was associated with sexual love, violence, legitimate kingship, fertility, the underworld, prophecy, and medicine. The cults of Ishtar-like goddesses in the Levant influenced cults of Aphrodite.
| Item Type: | Encyclopedia article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Aphrodite, Arbela, Ashtart, Astarte, hierogamy, Inanna, Mylitta, prophecy |
| Subjects: | 900 History and geography > 900 Geschichte 900 History and geography > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499) |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 120443 |
| Date Deposited: | 10. Sep 2024, 06:03 |
| Last Modified: | 10. Sep 2024, 06:03 |
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