La création d’un mythe : l’épisode de la naissance de Sargon d’Akkad

The aim of this article is to bring some new elements of discussion about the passage concerning the birth and the youth of the king Sargon of Akkad. There are some interests to follow how the myth was gradually born from the first narrative texts telling the deeds and the life of what was a legendary king-hero to the creation of a pure imaginative literary construction in which Sargon became an exceptional champion under the protection of the major gods. The narration of his uncommon birth and youth is fundamental and decisive to introduce the supra-natural character of a human being destined to take the control of the “universe”. During the neo-babylonian period, the exploits of Sargon were deeply transformed with the ideological objective to justify the imperial position of Babylon as heir of the fabulous city of Akkad centre of an universal empire, and stated as have been built by Sargon him self at the same place.