The east face of Helicon west Asiatic elements in Greek poetry and myth /

"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 become increasingly aware of links connecting early...

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Main Author: West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Clarendon Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
xxvi, 662 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects:
Greek poetry -- Oriental influences.
Comparative literature -- Greek and Middle Eastern.
Comparative literature -- Middle Eastern and Greek.
Greek poetry -- History and criticism.
Mythology, Middle Eastern.
Mythology, Greek.
Greece -- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences.
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Contributor biographical information

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245 1 4 |a The east face of Helicon :  |b west Asiatic elements in Greek poetry and myth /  |c M.L. West. 
264 1 |a Oxford [England] ;  |a New York :  |b Clarendon Press,  |c 1997. 
300 |a xxvi, 662 pages ;  |c 24 cm. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [631]-636) and indexes. 
505 0 |a Abbreviations -- Note on the transcription of oriental languages -- Note on chronologies -- 1. Aegean and Orient -- 2. Ancient Literatures of Western Asia -- 3. Of Heaven and Earth -- 4. Ars Poetica -- 5. A Form of Words -- 6. Hesiod -- 7. The Iliad -- 8. The Odyssey -- 9. Myths and Legends of Heroes -- 10. The Lyric Poets -- 11. Aeschylus -- 12. The Question of Transmission -- Bibliography -- Indexes. 
520 1 |a "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 become increasingly aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Canaan, and Israel. Martin Wests'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."--BOOK JACKET. 
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650 6 |a Littérature comparée  |x Grecque et moyen-orientale. 
650 6 |a Littérature comparée  |x Moyen-orientale et grecque. 
650 6 |a Poésie grecque  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 6 |a Mythologie orientale. 
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