Daily Life in Akkad Under Sargon | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:08 The City of Akkad
00:07:50 Society and Class in Sargon’s Empire
00:19:54 Home and Family Life
00:30:32 Work and Economy
00:44:06 Food and Drink
00:57:46 Thoughts and Conclusion


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Sources and Further Reading

Bottéro, Jean (1992). Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Nemet-Nejat, Karen R. (1998). Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Bertman, Stephen (2003). Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Enheduanna (c. 2300 BCE). Hymns to Inanna (Translated in Hallo & van Dijk, 1979).

Frayne, Douglas (1993). Sargonic and Gutian Periods (Mesopotamian Chronicles).

Cooper, Jerrold S. (1983). The Curse of Agade: Essays on Akkadian Civilization.

Leick, Gwendolyn (2002). Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City.

Kramer, Samuel Noah (1988). History Begins at Sumer.

Gadd, C. J. (1965). “Dynasty of Agade” in The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. I/2.

Legrain, Leon (1944). "Sargon of Agade," Penn Museum Bulletin X (3-4).


Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.