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.
| ISBN: | 9781108820073 |
| Publication date: | 28th May 2020 |
| Author: | Johannes University of Durham Haubold |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 234 pages |
| Series: | The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures |
| Genres: |
Ancient history Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |
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.
Greece and Mesopotamia features in the following genres: Ancient history, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
Greece and Mesopotamia is available in Paperback
Greece and Mesopotamia was written by Johannes University of Durham Haubold and published by Cambridge University Press
Greece and Mesopotamia has 234 pages
Yes it is part of The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures series
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