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Gonzalo Rubio
  • Dept. of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
    108 Weaver Bldg.
    Pennsylvania State University
    University Park, PA 16802
    U.S.A.
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Sumerian Religion, History of Mathematics, Mesopotamian Archaeology, Ancient Religion, Ancient Near East, and 31 more
Review of Sophus Helle, The Complete Poems of Enheduana, the World’s First Author (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2023).
In Greek and Roman sources, Tartessos designates a geographical area and a legendary kingdom that flourished in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and seventh centuries bce. For decades, much research on pre-Roman... more
In Greek and Roman sources, Tartessos designates a geographical area and a legendary kingdom that flourished in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and seventh centuries bce. For decades, much research on pre-Roman Iberia has gravitated around the nature of Tartessos as an historical or mythical polity, its possible location, and the archaeological identification of Tartessic material culture. It seems now increasingly clear that what the Greeks called Tartessos was inextricably linked to the presence of Phoenician culture in the area. It is thus only fitting that the first book about the subject to be published in English approaches the evidence with a special focus on patterns and phenomena of cultural and economic contact between the Phoenicians and the locals.
DOI: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.1.0219
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.1.0219
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Sumerian Religion, Arabic Literature, Arabic Poetry, Pre Islamic Poetry, Semitic languages, and 45 more
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Assyriology, Identity (Culture), Cultural Identity, National Identity, Akkadian Language, and 33 more
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This article takes a look at the classical accounts of sacred prostitution in the Ancient Near East, as well as at the alleged evidence from Mesopotamian and Syro-Palestinian sources. The analysis of the original Sumerian, Akkadian and... more
This article takes a look at the classical accounts of sacred prostitution in the Ancient Near East, as well as at the alleged evidence from Mesopotamian and Syro-Palestinian sources. The analysis of the original Sumerian, Akkadian and North-West Semitic texts makes quite clear that sacred prostitution is a misconstruction of a religious and cultural otherness. Such fabrication was the result of a later misunderstanding —and progressive demonization— of both Mesopotamian cult and the remarkable role played by some women in earlier periods.

https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/GERI/issue/view/GERI999911
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Recorded: February 18, 2020 Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium Citation: Rubio, Gonzalo. "Axial Anxieties: The Politics and Theology of Temple Destruction in the Achaemenid Empire and... more
Recorded: February 18, 2020
Event: Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium
Citation: Rubio, Gonzalo. "Axial Anxieties: The Politics and Theology of Temple Destruction in the Achaemenid Empire and the Ancient Near East," Contextualizing Iranian Religions in the Ancient World - 14th Melammu Symposium. February 18, 2020.
1st lecture in the series "Súmer y la Civilización de Mesopotamia," delivered at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, in Madrid (Spain), in May 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOAEGgvINvQ&feature=youtu.be
2nd lecture in the series "Súmer y la Civilización de Mesopotamia," delivered at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, in Madrid (Spain), in May 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_BYPx8cF4&feature=youtu.be&t=14
3rd lecture in the series "Súmer y la Civilización de Mesopotamia," delivered at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, in Madrid (Spain), in May 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkv1ofofsZo&feature=youtu.be
4th lecture in the series "Súmer y la Civilización de Mesopotamia," delivered at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, in Madrid (Spain), in May 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZpuUPI9dsg&feature=youtu.be
5th lecture in the series "Súmer y la Civilización de Mesopotamia," delivered at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, in Madrid (Spain), in May 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtWMMmpfXok&feature=youtu.be