Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 341 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781108572040
Content:
Explores the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East through stories about the gods and their relationships with humankind.
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108480246
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gods and mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern mythology Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 9781108480246
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108727174
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Babylon
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Ausgrabung
