Abstract/Hauptbeschreibung

Through an anthropological-linguistic approach, the book deepens the analysis of some of the most interesting and important words and expressions of the Akkadian language used to explain the pain and suffering of the individual, as perceived in ancient Mesopotamia. Taking into consideration the medical, literary and epistolary texts dating back to the end of the second millennium and the first millennium BC, the Authors adopts, where possible, the theory of conceptual metaphors by Lakoff and Johnson. She investigates the cultural and social dynamics of the perception of disease and pain felt by the individual and by the society he/she belongs to, in an attempt to shed new light on some interesting aspects of the Mesopotamian culture of that period.