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The oracle of Nusku, Veleda, Mavia, Alena Arzamasskaia, and Laskarina Bouboulina

The title was pretty clear to me; it's the first named author (emphasis to show how I read it), I don't know how they could have made it clearer.

It was an interesting read regardless.

It’s really hard to build any name recognition

>It was just a dumb smart joke sorry

It is the horse with no name, but you got the joke so it doesn’t matter.

The song is called "A Horse With No Name" so I'd bet it's safe to assume the horse was indeed nameless. And Dewey Bunnell, the guy who wrote the song, was quoted as saying about his horseback trip into the desert to shoot an album cover photo, "We had fun, but I don’t recall the name of the horse I rode while I was out there". All signs point to a horse that was just "horse".

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Wait... It's the song saying, "I rode through the desert (on a horse) with no name," as in, the speaker has no name??? I always assumed the horse itself was nameless.

Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie is a fantastic book about the early settlement of Illinois.

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They probably rode through the desert on a horse…too

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I’m trying to learn about 1700-early 1800’s Dutch & German history — I know next to nothing… could someone recommend a reference with maps as to how the area evolved into modern Germany?

I’m aware of what the word means. It was just a dumb joke sorry.

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Anhedonia is a term coined in 1896 by psychologist Théodule-Armand Ribot to describe the reduced ability to experience pleasure.

It comes from the Greek word hēdonē meaning “pleasure” with the prefix an for “without”.

So any similarity in pronunciation appears to be coincidental.

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Additionally, it's important to draw a distinction between works attributed to Enheduanna and the works that were actually composed by Enheduanna. Most of the works attributed to Enheduanna were in fact created in the Old Babylonian period, several hundred years after the collapse of the Akkadian empire.

>For the Sumerian corpus, the tradition gives us the names of two alleged authors: Enheduanna and Lu-Inanna (Michałowski 1996: 183–86). Enheduanna was the daughter of Sargon, the king of Akkad, as well as a priestess of the Moon-god Nanna at Ur. Up to six compositions are attributed to her: a long hymn to Inanna known as The Exaltation of Inanna or Ninmešarra (nin me šar2-ra “lady of all the me’s/divine powers”; Zgoll 1997); Inanna hymn C or Inninšagurra (in-nin ša3-gur4-ra “lady with a great heart”; Sjöberg 1975a); the narrative known as Inanna and Ebih (Attinger 1998); the collection of Temple Hymns (Sjöberg and Bergmann 1969); a balbale song of Nanna; and an Ur III tablet mentioning Nanna-Suen and Enheduanna (Goodnick Westenholz 1989).

>However, the main composition attributed to her that includes some possibly autobiographical data (Ninmešarra) was most likely composed several centuries after Enheduanna’s death, in the Old Babylonian period (Civil 1980: 229). Aside from the aforementioned Ur III text, no composition traditionally attributed to her appears in a single tablet that could be dated prior to 1800 (Veldhuis 2003: 31 n. 2). In fact, there can be little doubt that Enheduanna started to be regarded as an author only in a tradition that begins centuries after her death: This is a case of traditional authorship, not historical. The other supposed author is Lu-Inanna, “chief leatherworker (ašgab gal) of Enlil,” who according to the composition itself would have dictated the Tummal Chronicle to a scribe (Sollberger 1962; Oelsner 2003). However, this composition is not the historical document that it purports to be but rather a scribal artifact. Thus, the attribution of its authorship to a leatherworker is an ironic device within an erudite exercise in fake royal legitimation...

"Sumerian Literature" by Gonzalo Rubio in From an Antique Land: An Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern Literature edited by Carl Ehrlich

Pretty contrived accolade to attribute to someone. She obviously was not “the world’s first author” in any sense, just the author of the earliest directly attributed work.

A History of Ancient Egypt by Marc Van de Mieroop is by far the best introductory overview of ancient Egyptian history. Since it's dry read, however, I recommend starting with Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt and Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Barbara Mertz.

For readable introductions to the major archaeological sites in Egypt, see Exploring Ancient Egypt by Ian Shaw.

Jason Thompson's A History of Egypt: From Earliest Times to the Present and Egypt: A Short History by Robert Tignor are worth a read as well.