When the gods were born :Greek cosmogonies and the Near East

• 作者: Lopez-Ruiz, Carolina.
• 出版: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press 2010.
• 稽核項: xii, 302 p. ;25 cm.
• 標題: Mythology, Middle Eastern Comparative studies. , Mythology, Middle Eastern , Mythology, Greek Comparative studies. , Greece Religion. , Middle East Religion. , Religion. , Middle East , Greece , Mythology, Greek , Cosmogony, Greek.
• ISBN: 0674049462 , 9780674049468
• 附註: 99年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-284) and indexes. Greeks and Phoenicians -- Hesiod's Theogony in context -- Greek and Near Eastern succession myths -- Orphic and Phoenician cosmogonies -- Cosmogonies, poets, and cultural exchange -- Appendix: The sacred tree and sacred stone from the Levant to Greece.
• 摘要: "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 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 cosmogonies. 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 Theogony, 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."-From jacket.
• 系統號: 005036791
• 資料類型: 圖書
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