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The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth

By M. L. West

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0198150423, 9780198150428
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18611571 bytes)
Pages
678\688
Time added
2024-11-01 23:56:11

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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