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The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Clarendon Paperbacks)

By Martin Litchfield West

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0198152213, 9780198152217
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26191582 bytes)
Pages
688\693
Time added
2023-05-13 16:29:57

Description

Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of the ancient Near East. Martin West's new book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing 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.

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