Recs if you like Gilgamesh (Sumerians #2)...
Set in Ancient West Asia and North Africa
Mostly fiction inspired by Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Canaanite (and Roman Levant), Hittite, Persian etc…
I see a lot of Greek myth retellings or books inspired by them, but not that much from SWANA.
The period spans from 8th millennium BCE to 7th century BCE. This is very much unique to Sumerian culture. But there aren’t a lot of Sumerian inspired works out there. And since, we’re bound by the constraints of what’s available, I’ve been lax with the criteria.
(Different genres)
Inanna • Aphrodite • Ishtar • Venus
A curated list of books about the goddesses Inanna, Ishtar, Venus, and Aphrodite.
Sumerian Mythology
Hands That Reach Through History
A collection of Greek, Sumerian, and Roman myth retellings and historical fiction. There are the perennial favorites and perhaps a few that deserve some time in the limelight.
