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" The east face of Helicon : "
M.L. West
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BL
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712078
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b534267
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| Main Entry
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West, M. L., (Martin Litchfield),1937-2015
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The east face of Helicon : : west Asiatic elements in Greek poetry and myth /\ M.L. West
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford [England] ;New York :: Clarendon Press,, 1997
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| Series Statement
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Clarendon paperbacks
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xxvi, 662 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0198150423 (hardbound)
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: 0198152213
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: 9780198150428 (hardbound)
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: 9780198152217
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [631]-636) and indexes
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| Contents
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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
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"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."--Jacket
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Comparative literature-- Greek and Middle Eastern
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Comparative literature-- Middle Eastern and Greek
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Greek poetry-- History and criticism
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Greek poetry-- Oriental influences
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Mythology, Greek
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Mythology, Middle Eastern
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Greece, Civilization, Middle Eastern influences
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| Dewey Classification
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881/.0109
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PA3010.W47 1997
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