Before Homer, before the Torah, before Plato--there was Enheduanna. In this episode, Harmonia introduces us to the world's first recorded author: a poet, a priestess, a daughter of empire. Living in ancient Mesopotamia four thousand years ago, Enheduanna dared to do what no one before her had done--write in her own voice and sign her name. Through hymns of exile, power, and divine fury, she gave rhythm to memory and presence to history. Her words survived millennia not through conquest, but through copying--passed hand to hand across the centuries. Join us as we follow the thread of her authorship, and ask what it means to be remembered, and to speak as yourself.

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