The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The East Face of Helicon From Neolithic times, Greek lands lay open to cultural imports from western Asia, including writing, religion and artistic fashions. This work explores the connections between Greek poetry and the literatures of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Canaan and Israel, along with the avenues of transmission.
Full description- Publisher: Clarendon Press
- Published: 15 April 1999
- Format: Paperback 688 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets | General & World History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9780198152217 ISBN 10: 0198152213
- Sales rank: 370,253
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Full description for The East Face of Helicon
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 the Near Eastern literature than Latinists can ignore Greek.
