Frazer, Mary
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6948-2826
(2024):
Ishtar.
In:
The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 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 |
| Faculties: | History and Art History > Department of History |
| Subjects: | 900 History and geography > 900 Geschichte 900 History and geography > 930 History of ancient world (to ca. 499) |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford |
| Annotation: | Published online: 22 December 2015 This version: 21 August 2024 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 129944 |
| Date Deposited: | 16. Dec 2025 08:36 |
| Last Modified: | 16. Dec 2025 08:36 |
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