19: Tell Brak, the first city in West Asia, 4500-3600 BCE (Antigone, the Death of Enkidu)
Guest: Annika First, Antigone gets caught burying her brother, a foolish judge arraigns her folly, and we wonder whether the good might actually desire a like portion with the evil. Then, we visit Tel...
28 Mar 202240min
18: The foundation of Susa, 4500-3900 BCE (Inanna & An)
Guest: Kelsey First, Inanna sets her mind to capturing the House of Heaven (that is, the E-anna) from her father, the sky-god An, after including it on her wedding registry proved too subtle of a requ...
18 Mar 202238min
17: The first Sumerian cities, Early-Middle Uruk periods, 4200-3500 BCE
Guest: Matt I actually have recorded a myth for this one, but I haven’t edited it yet. Stay tuned for “Enki & Ninhursanga”, with listener Matt! This episode kicks off Season Two with an all-new (as of...
9 Mar 202238min
16: Ubaid society & the first Mesopotamian temples, 5300-4200 BCE (Thersites vs Odysseus)
Guest: Kelten First, one of the common soldiers at Troy tells Agamemnon what everyone else is thinking and Odysseus threatens to smack him upside the head for it. Then, in our last episode of Season O...
27 Feb 202249min
15: Season One review
This is a quick review of everything so far, to prepare for a discussion about social complexity during the Ubaid period in episode 16. Perfect for anyone who wants to skip straight to all the interes...
23 Jan 202230min
14: Ubaid Northern Mesopotamia, 5300-4400 BCE (Nanna-Suen’s journey)
Guest: Kelsey First, we meet the moon god Nanna-Suen (alias Sin, alias Ashimbabbar), as he prepares to journey from Ur upriver to the city of his father Enlil. Then, a brief look at the Halaf culture ...
13 Jan 202259min
13: Ubaid sea trade with the Persian Gulf, 5400-4500 BCE (Flood story, Home of the fish)
Guest: Annika First, we start with the Sumerian flood story (which later inspired the flood stories in the Bible and the Epic of Gilgamesh), pieced together from fragmentary tablets. What does this ha...
4 Des 202148min
12: Ubaid culture and the golden age of Eridu, 5300-4200 BCE (Enki & the world order)
Guests: Kelsey, Michaela First, Enki, patron god of Eridu, creates the world, invents agriculture, blesses foreign lands, and produces the Tigris and the Euphrates as part of an extremely convoluted a...
29 Nov 202145min
