Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Kelly, Adrian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108570244
• Artikelnr.: 66178072

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Adrian Kelly and Christopher Metcalf; Part I. Contexts: 1.
'Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen': The Social Setting of the
Hurro-Hittite Song of Emergence Amir Gilan; 2. Siting the Gods: Narrative,
Cult, and Hybrid Communities in the Iron Age Mediterranean Carolina
López-Ruiz; 3. Politics, Cult, and Scholarship: Aspects of the Transmission
History of Marduk and Ti¿amat's Battle Frances Reynolds; 4. The Scholar and
the Poet: Standard Babylonian Gilgame VI vs. Iliad 5 Mark Weeden; Part II.
Influence: 5. Playing with Traditions: Deliberate Allusions to Near Eastern
Myth in Hesiod's Story of the Five Human Races André Lardinois; 6. Etana in
Greece Bruno Currie; 7. The World of Gods and Men: Animal and Plant
Disputation Poems and Fables in Babylonia, Persia, and Greece Yoram Cohen;
8. Tales of Kings and Cup-bearers in History and Myth Christopher Metcalf;
9. There Were Nephilim Ruth Scodel; 10. Mythical Time in Mesopotamia Andrew
George; Part III. Difference: 11. Borrowing, Dialogue and Rejection:
Intertextual Interfaces in the Late Bronze Age Ian Rutherford; 12. Divine
Labour Johannes Haubold; 13. Comparison: Relevance and Significance of
Linguistic Features Sylvie Vanséveren; 14. Fate and Authority in
Mesopotamian Literature and the Iliad Angus Bowie; 15. Fashioning Pandora:
Ancient Near Eastern Creation Scenes and Hesiod Bernardo Ballesteros
Petrella; 16. Sexing and Gendering the Succession Myth in Ancient Greece
and the Near East Adrian Kelly.