Gods and mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern mythology
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Gods and mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern mythology
Cambridge University Press, 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-339) and index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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 Lopez-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 Gilgames 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 Andre 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 Vanseveren
- 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.
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