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Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and near Eastern Mythology
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Context -- Part II: Influence -- Part III: Difference -- Current and Future Perspectives -- Part I Contexts -- Chap...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
, 2021
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6577201 |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Context -- Part II: Influence -- Part III: Difference -- Current and Future Perspectives -- Part I Contexts -- Chapter 1 'Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen': The Social Setting of the Hurro-Hittite Song of Emergence -- Chapter 2 Siting the Gods: Narrative, Cult, and Hybrid Communities in the Iron Age Mediterranean -- Scholarly Narratives and Travelling Myths -- Coming to Power in The Levant: Baal at Mount Saphon -- Birth and Death in Crete: Zeus at Mount Ida -- Rebirth in Tyre and Gadir: From Baal to Heracles-Melqart -- A Golden Age among the Atlantians -- The Biography of Zeus and Greco-Phoenician Euhemerism? -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Politics, Cult, and Scholarship: Aspects of the Transmission History of Marduk and Ti?amat's Battle -- Chapter 4 The Scholar and the Poet: Standard Babylonian Gilgames VI vs. Iliad 5 -- Introduction -- Types of Literary Intertextuality -- Numerous Caveats -- Standard Babylonian Gilgames vi and the Sign-Lists -- The Textual Register -- Sign-Lists: Word and Phrase -- Standard Babylonian Gilgames vi and the Word-Lists -- Word and Phrase -- Word-Lists and Narrative Structure -- Orality and Literacy in Composition -- Part II Influence -- Chapter 5 Playing with Traditions: The Near Eastern Background to Hesiod's Story of the Five Human Races -- The Near Eastern Origin of Hesiod's Story of the Five Human Races -- Traditional Elements in Hesiod's Story of the Five Human Races -- Early Greek Appreciation of Oriental Tales -- Chapter 6 Etana in Greece -- Introduction: The Question -- Etana and Archilochus' Lykambes Epode -- Assessing the Similarities -- Floating Motifs and Oral Tradition. The Fable of The Eagle and the Dung-Beetle -- Aristophanes' Peace -- Etana inside and outside Greece -- Consequences -- Chapter 7 Of Gods and Men: Animal and Plant Disputation Poems and Fables in Babylonia, Persia, and Greece -- Introduction -- The Date Palm and the Tamarisk, The Date Palm and the Vine, and The Series of the Poplar -- The Babylonian Tree -- Aesop and Callimachus -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Tales of Kings and Cup-Bearers in History and Myth -- Chapter 9 Heroes and Nephilim: Sex between Gods and Mortals -- There Were Heroes -- Heroes and Nephilim -- Chapter 10 Berossus and Babylonian Cosmogony -- Early Dynastic Period -- Ur III Period -- Old Babylonian Period -- Akkadian Texts in First-Millennium Copies -- Part III Difference -- Chapter 11 Borrowing, Dialogue and Rejection: Intertextual Interfaces in the Late Bronze Age -- Introduction -- KIHC: Dissemination and Origins -- Greece and KIHC -- Differences -- Chapter 12 Divine Labour -- Babylon -- Israel -- Greece -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Influence and Inheritance: Linguistics and Formulae between Greece and the Ancient Near East -- Chapter 14 Fate and Authority in Mesopotamian Literature and the Iliad -- Fate -- Mesopotamia -- Iliad -- Authority -- Mesopotamia -- Iliad -- Chapter 15 Fashioning Pandora: Ancient Near Eastern Creation Scenes and Hesiod -- Chapter 16 Sexing and Gendering the Succession Myth in Hesiod and the Ancient Near East -- Introduction -- Traditions in Dialogue -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. Explores the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East through stories about the gods and their relationships with humankind |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (356 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108572040 |
