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The east face of Helicon :

0198150423 (hardbound)

0198152213

9780198150428 (hardbound)

9780198152217

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The east face of Helicon :

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west Asiatic elements in Greek poetry and myth /

M.L. West

New York :

Clarendon Press,

1997

xxvi, 662 pages ;

24 cm

Clarendon paperbacks

Includes bibliographical references (p. [631]-636) and indexes

Abbreviations -- Note on the transcription of oriental languages -- Note on chronologies -- 1. Aegean and Orient -- 2. Ancient Literatures of Western Asia -- 3. Of Heaven and Earth -- 4. Ars Poetica -- 5. A Form of Words -- 6. Hesiod -- 7. The Iliad -- 8. The Odyssey -- 9. Myths and Legends of Heroes -- 10. The Lyric Poets -- 11. Aeschylus -- 12. The Question of Transmission -- Bibliography -- Indexes

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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 become increasingly aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Canaan, and Israel. Martin Wests'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."--Jacket

East face of Helicon.

Comparative literature-- Greek and Middle Eastern

Comparative literature-- Middle Eastern and Greek

Greek poetry-- History and criticism

Greek poetry-- Oriental influences

Mythology, Greek

Mythology, Middle Eastern

Greece, Civilization, Middle Eastern influences

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