Hesiod and the Near East -

Peter Walcot

University of Wales Press

1966

154 páginas

5h 8m

ISBN-10: 0708304958

To what extent was the poetry of Hesiod influenced by Near Eastern traditions and literature, and by what routes did such influence reach the Greeks? In attempting to answer these questions, the author undertakes a detailed survey of texts coming from Asia Minor, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Egypt and a fresh assesment of the Greeks and the Near East in the Mycenaean age, the eighth and subsequent centuries B.C., and the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. Much of his evidence, both Greek and Near Eastern, has only recently become available or has been previously ignored, and the conclusions which the author advances considerably modify what has been hitherto argued and also open new fields of study.