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Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 11/2024





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In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos. In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can comparison tell us besides? This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance understanding of Mesopotamian and early Greek literature and religion. The book discusses Sumerian narrative poems, the Akkadian works Atra-?asis, Anzû, Enuma eliš, Erra and Išum and the Epic of Gilgameš; Homer's Iliad, the Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and some Homeric Hymns. It studies poetic technique and probes further comparisons with Sanskrit, Old Norse, Polynesian, and Aztec mythology. It argues that Greek speakers are unlikely to have inherited the divine assembly from the Near East. Still, one can posit a long-term process of oral contact and communication fostered by common poetic structures and religious affinities. In a second part pursuing a mythological and religious comparison, the book concentrates on ideas about the cosmos and humankind, and on power dynamics within the pantheon as well as between gods and mortals. A focus on the head of the pantheon and on concepts of divine prerogatives illuminates culture-specific differences which can be related to historical socio-political discourses. The book develops a systematic approach to questions of cross-cultural literary comparison in the ancient world.




Sommario

1 - Poems
2 - Structuring the Narrative
3 - Comparing Conventions
4 - Morphology
5 - Diffusion
6 - Divine Assemblies and Cosmic History
7 - Distance and Proximity
8 - Enemies of the Assembly
9 - Divine Power: Atra-?asis and the Gods' Kingship
10 - Cosmic Order: Homer's Zeus and Divine Offices
11 - Divine Counsel




Autore

Bernardo Ballesteros is Assistant Professor in Early Greek Literature and Language at the Institut für Klassische Philologie, University of Vienna. After obtaining his doctorate at Oxford, he held postdoctoral positions at LMU Munich, the Warburg Institute, and the Faculty of Classics and Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780198924593

Condizione: Nuovo
Collana: Oxford Classical Monographs
Dimensioni: 240 x 35.0 x 162 mm Ø 886 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:0
Pagine Arabe: 496


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