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TRAMA

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.

NOTE EDITORE

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 early Greek 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 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. He believes that an age has dawned in which Hellenists will no more be able to ignore Near Eastern literature than Latinists can ignore Greek.

SOMMARIO

1 - Aegean and Orient2 - Ancient Literatures of Western Asia3 - Of Heaven and Earth4 - Ars Poetica5 - A Form of Words6 - Hesiod7 - The Iliad8 - The Odyssey9 - Myths and Legends of Heroes10 - The Lyric Poets11 - Aeschylus12 - The Question of Transmission

AUTORE

Martin West FBA was formerly Professor of Greek, University of London (1974-91)

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198152217
• Dimensioni: 233 x 36.0 x 156 mm Ø 965 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: 1 map, 3 tables
• Pagine Arabe: 688