عنوان

When the gods were born

شابک

9780674049468 (alk. paper)

شابک

0674049462 (alk. paper)

شماره

2-14258

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

When the gods were born

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

: Greek cosmogonies and the Near East

نام نخستين پديدآور

/ Carolinalopez-Ruiz.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Mass

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

: Harvard University Press

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

, 2010.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 302 p. ;

ابعاد

25 cm.

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

متن يادداشت

""With admirable erudition, Lopez-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic contact zone. She explains networks of circulation, shows creative uses of traditional material by peoples in motion, and radically transforms our understanding of ancient cosmogonies."---Page duBois, author of Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks" "Ancient Greece has for too long been studied in isolation from its Near Eastern neighbors. And the ancient Near East itself has for too long been seen as an undifferentiated cultural monolith. Classics and Near Eastern Studies, in our modern universities, continue to be separated by various disciplinary, linguistic, and ideological walls. Yet there is a growing trend to dismantle these divides and look at the Greek world within its fullest geographical and cultural contexts." "This book aims to bring the comparative study of Greek and Near Eastern cosmogonies to a new level. It analyzes themes such as succession myths, expressions of poetic inspiration, and claims to cosmic knowledge, as well as the role of itinerant specialists in the transmission of theogonies. Rather than compiling literary parallels from different periods and languages and treating the Near East as a monolithic matrix, the author focuses on the motifs specific to the Northwest Semitic tradition with which the Greeks had direct contact in the Archaic period. Focusing on Hesiod's Tbeogony, the Orphic texts, and their Ugaritic, Phoenician, and Hebrew counterparts, Carolina Lopez-Ruiz avoids traditional diffusionist assumptions and proposes instead that dynamic cultural interaction led to the oral and intimate transmission of stories and beliefs."--BOOK JACKET.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cosmogony - Greek.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mythology, Greek, Comparative studies.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mythology - Middle Eastern - Comparative studies.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Lopez-Ruiz, Carolina.

تاريخ عمليات

20110814194728.0

نوع ماده

BL

کد کاربرگه

251648

تكميل شده

Y