The emergence of the state form in early Mesopotamia required a concatenation of politicized “voices”: legal, martial, custodial, religious, historical; how, though, was the good citizen—the audience for these voices—himself imagined to speak? With what narrative, rhetorical, and didactic models were members of the political community encouraged to accept and participate in (or, indeed, question) the state community as a moral good? This chapter collects a range of literary representations of the thoughts and actions of “sons” and “daughters” of the early city-state, in terms of emotion/affect, direct speech, and perceptivity. Although these depictions (and genres from which they derive) are too diverse to permit a singular reading as state ideology or propaganda, they do reveal a discourse of homiletics and variance around which the project of the early state was being organized.