The East Face of Helicon

West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

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Ever since Neolithic times Greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western Asia: agriculture, metal-working, writing, religious institutions, artistic fashions, musical instruments, and much more. Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Canaan, and Israel. Martin West's new book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing that they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged. His survey embraces Hesiod, the Homeric epics, the lyric poets, and Aeschylus, and concludes with an illuminating discussion of possible avenues of transmission between the orient and Greece. He believes that an age has dawned in which Hellenists will no more be able to ignore Near Eastern literature than Latinists can ignore Greek.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-02-18
Mått156 x 233 x 36 mm
Vikt965 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor688
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198152217
UtmärkelserWinner of a Runciman Award, funded by the Onassis Foundation and administered by the Anglo-Hellenic League.

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immensely learned ... the evidence amassed by West discloses a truly extraordinary command of Near Eastern as well as Classical languages, linguistics, history, art history, and archaeology ... I would single out ... chapter 2 which is to my knowledge the most comprehensive detailed, up-to-date survey of Near Eastern literature currently available in English ... he has performed an extremely valuable service in making the specialist scholarship of Mesopotamian and other Eastern literatures more readily accessible than has previously been the case.