When the Gods were born : Greek cosmogonies and the Near East / Carolina López-Ruiz.

Yer Numarası
A.IX/7345
ISBN
9780674049468 (alk. paper)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Fiziksel Niteleme
xii, 302 sayfa ; 24 cm
Genel Not
İndeks s. 285-302.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografik notlar s. 213-254.
Bibliyografya s. 255-284.
İçindekiler Notu
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.
Özet, vb.
“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 North-West 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 López-Ruiz avoids traditional diffusionist assumptions and proposes instead that dynamic cultural interaction led to the oral and intimate transmission of stories and beliefs“ -- Yayıncı.