Greece and Mesopotamia : dialogues in literature / Johannes Haubold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haubold, Johannes, author.

Series:

W.B. Stanford memorial lectures.

The W.B. Stanford memorial lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Assyro-Babylonian literature--History and criticism.

Assyro-Babylonian literature.

Comparative literature--Greek and Assyro-Babylonian.

Comparative literature.

Comparative literature--Assyro-Babylonian and Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Greece & Mesopotamia

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 of crucial importance 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.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Note on the transcription of cuneiform texts; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Parallel worlds; 2 Over the horizon; 3 Scripts from the archive; Further dialogues; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-82007-7

1-139-89052-2

1-107-05542-3

0-511-86324-1

1-107-05761-2

1-107-05887-2

1-107-05441-9

1-107-05651-9

OCLC:

850153162