Greece and Mesopotamia : Dialogues in Literature
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
ISBN-10
1108820077
ISBN-13
9781108820073
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 28th, 2020
Print length
234 Pages
Weight
356 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: classical, early & medievalClassical history / classical civilisation
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Proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. All passages of Greek and Akkadian are translated.
This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions of crucial importance to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and ''barbarians'', and what happened when they came to live alongside those ''barbarians'' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.
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