Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond

Lorenzo Verderame is professor of Assyriology at "Sapienza" University of Rome. His publications include an edition of the first six chapters of the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil (Le tavole I-VI della serie astrologica Enūma Anu Enlil, 2002) and overviews of Sumerian and Akkadian literature (Letterature dell'antica Mesopotamia, Firenze Le Monnier Università, 2016) and civilization (Introduzione alle culture dell'antica Mesopotamia, Milano Mondadori Education, 2017). He is the epigraphist in chief of Italian Archaeological Expedition to Tell Zurghul, ancient Nigin (Iraq). Agnès Garcia-Ventura is currently lecturer at the Universitàt Autònoma de Barcelona. She is the editor of several volumes, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (with Saana Svärd, Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and What's in a Name? Work Force and Job Categories in the Ancient Near East (Ugarit-Verlag, 2018).  

Foreword, Paul Collins

Preliminary Considerations, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame


Visual Arts
Pedro Azara and Marc Marín
Mesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia

Jean M. Evans
Case Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard

Silvana Di Paolo
Images of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of Transformation: The Case of Persepolis


Performing Arts
Kerstin Droá-Krupe
Artaserse: An Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages?

Valeska Hartmann
When Imitation Became Reality: The Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin

Daniele Federico Rosa
Ye Go to Thy Abzu: How Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong


Film and Television

Kevin McGeough
"Babylon's Last Bacchanal": Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema

Eva Miller
He Who Saw the Stars: Retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation

Lorenzo Verderame
Evil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology of the Beyond: An Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981)


Novels and Comics
Jana Myná?ová and Pavel Ko?ínek
The Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture: The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil

Luigi Turri
Gilgamesh, The (Super)Hero

Francesco Pomponio
Mystery Literature and Assyriology

Ryan Winters
Ancient Aliens, Modern Cosmologies: Zecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth


Archaeologist in the Middle
Davide Nadali
The (In)visibility of Archaeology

Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós
Imagining the Tower of Babel in the Twenty-First Century: Is a New Interpretation of the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible?

Silvia Festuccia
Athletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near East: Representation and Reconstruction


Afterword. Memory and Memories: From the Ancient Near East to the Modern West
Frances Pinnock


Contributors

Subject Index