| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The W.B. Stanford memorial lectures
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W.B. Stanford memorial lectures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Assyro-Babylonian literature -- History and criticism.
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Assyro-Babylonian literature. |
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Comparative literature -- Greek and Assyro-Babylonian.
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Comparative literature. |
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Comparative literature -- Assyro-Babylonian and Greek.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Haubold, Johannes. Greece and Mesopotamia. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107010765 (DLC) 2012048522 (OCoLC)826456678 |
| ISBN |
9781107055421 (electronic book) |
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1107055423 (electronic book) |
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9780511863240 (electronic book) |
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0511863241 (electronic book) |
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9781107057616 |
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1107057612 |
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9781107010765 |
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1107010764 |
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