TLRH | Interruptions in Babylonian Poetry: Are They There, and What do They Tell Us?

Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts · Nov 23, 2020 · 1h 2m

Tuesday, 17 November 2020, 4 – 5pm A talk by Prof. Martin Worthington (TCD) as part of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies Research Seminar Series in association with Trinity Long Room Hub. The study of Babylonian poetry as poetry is still in its infancy — largely because so much energy has to go into textual reconstruction. But we now have a number of reasonably well preserved narrative poems, and one question which never seems to have been asked of them is whether characters finish their speeches to the end, or interrupt each other. In the absence of a Babylonian…