Publisher's Synopsis
Long before Homer sang of heroes, before the Bible was written, before Shakespeare put pen to page - there was her.
She lived over 4,000 years ago in the cradle of civilization - Mesopotamia - where gods were many, kings were powerful, and voices like hers were never meant to survive. But she did more than survive. She spoke. She wrote. She named herself. Her name was Enheduanna - daughter of an empire, high priestess of the moon god, poet of the heavens. In a world ruled by men and myths, she became the first person in recorded history to claim authorship. She pressed her thoughts into clay while empires rose and fell around her. "I, Enheduanna, " she wrote - and in doing so, she became unforgettable. This is not just the story of a woman who witnessed history.This is the story of the first human voice to reach across the silence of time... and it belonged to a woman.
