Michael Clarke

Achilles Beside Gilgamesh

Mortality and Wisdom in Early Epic Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

Interprets the poetic meaning of the Iliad in relation to the heroic literature of the Ancient Near East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 920
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481786
• ISBN-10: 1108481787
• Artikelnr.: 57169207

Autorenporträt

Michael Clarke is Established Professor of Classics  at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His interests lie in the comparative study of classical and medieval literatures, especially ancient Greek and medieval Irish, and especially in the emergence of the Homeric epic out of the Ancient Near East. He is the author of Flesh and Spirit in the Songs of Homer: A Study of Words and Myths (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Divinity, humanity and wisdom
3. Gilgamesh and glory
4. Gilgamesh confronts death
5. Interlude on Homer and the muse
6. The race of half-gods
7. The plan of Zeus
8. The coming of Achilles
9. The strife of the Iliad
10. Achilles looks inward
11. The death of the friend
12. Achilles responds
13. From lamentation to vengeance
14. Achilles like a lion
15. Mortality and wisdom
16. The truths of lamentation
Conclusion: the slender-winged fly.