UID:
almafu_9960118955002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 341 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-57204-9
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1-108-64802-9
Inhalt:
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity - the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis. Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed, critiqued, and contextualised. While direct textual comparisons still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and integrity of all the ancient participants.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 26 Mar 2021).
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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.
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-108-72717-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-108-48024-1
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Theologie/Religionswissenschaften
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108648028
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