Gods and mortals in early Greek and Near Eastern mythology
"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 re...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mythology
/ Classical antiquity
/ Greece
/ Anatolia
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Mythology, Greek B Conference program 2017 (Oxford) B Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian B Mythology, Egyptian |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781108648028 |
| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | Auf der Grundlage von: Conference "Divine narratives in Greece and the Ancient Near East", Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies at the University of Oxford on the 3rd and 4th of July 2017 (Acknowledgements) |
| ISBN: | 1108480241 |