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UNINA9910823205803321 |
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Autore |
Haubold Johannes |
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Titolo |
Greece and Mesopotamia : dialogues in literature / / Johannes Haubold [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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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 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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The W.B. Stanford memorial lectures |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Greek literature - History and criticism |
Assyro-Babylonian literature - History and criticism |
Comparative literature - Greek and Assyro-Babylonian |
Comparative literature - Assyro-Babylonian and Greek |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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? |
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