Gods and mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern mythology
- ISBN: 9781108727174
- Editorial: Cambridge University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2023
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 353
- Idiomas: Inglés
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.
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
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
