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S'està carregant… The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Mythde M. L. West
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. This is a comprehensive and magisterial treatment of Asian (Semitic/Hittite/Hurrian) influence on Greek culture, from Homer and Hesiod down to Aeschylus. Parts of the work can be a bit of a slog -- small and unrelated details in epic -- but overall it is a fascinating corrective to the general emphasis on either autocthonous or Indo-European sources for Greek literature and culture. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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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 earlyGreek 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 hashitherto 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 toignore the Near Eastern literature than Latinists can ignore Greek. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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