![]() The polarity of her nature is reflected in her role as goddess of sexual love and war, and has made her difficult to characterise in modern scholarship. ![]() Ishtar is the first book dedicated to providing an accessible analysis of the mythology and image of this complex goddess. The many sources in translation bring alive the world of Mesopotamian thought and forefront Ishtar as the most supreme of deities.” Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Chair of Ancient History, Cardiff University, UK Full of good sense, yet written with flair, this study of the goddess of all goddesses is an important and infinitely useful contribution to the study of ancient myth and religion. Yet Louise Pryke has achieved something quite remarkable here in synthesising the multivalence of the goddess’s deeds and personas into a coherent and manageable whole. ![]() “Ishtar is, without doubt, one of the most complex and baffling of the many gods of antiquity. ![]()
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