Greece and Mesopotamia
Dialogues in Literature
Part of The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
- Author: Johannes Haubold, University of Durham
- Date Published: May 2013
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This book proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. Along the way, the book addresses many questions that are of interest to the student of the ancient world: how did the literature of Greece relate to that of its eastern neighbours? What did ancient readers from different cultures think it meant to be human? Who invented the writing of universal history as we know it? How did the Greeks come to divide the world into Greeks and 'barbarians', and what happened when they came to live alongside those 'barbarians' after the conquests of Alexander the Great? In addressing these questions, the book draws on cutting-edge research in comparative literature, postcolonial studies and archive theory.
Read more- Proposes a new, theoretically informed approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature
- Discusses a wide range of Greek and Mesopotamian texts, citing them both in the original language and in translation
- Addresses some of the most central issues in the study of the ancient world, such as contact between the Greeks and their neighbours, the 'invention of the barbarian' in classical Greece and the making of hybrid identities in the Hellenistic period
Awards
- Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History
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- Date Published: May 2013
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781107069404
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 3 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Parallel worlds
2. Over the horizon
3. Scripts from the archive
Further dialogues.
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