Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia
Gwendolyn Leick
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Gwendolyn Leick studied Assyriology at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz (Austria) (DPhil) and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. She has taught since 1980 at various universities in Great Britain and is senior lecturer at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. She is the author of A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture (1988), A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology (1991), Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature (1994), Who’s Who in the Ancient Near East (1999), and The Babylonians: An Introduction (2003), as well as Mesopotamia, the Invention of the City (2001). She has recently edited The Babylonian World (2007, 2009). | 
