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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2013
      27 June 2013
      ISBN:
      9780511863240
      9781107010765
      9781108820073
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511863240
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.4kg, 234 Pages
      • Series:
      The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
      Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
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    Series:
    The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Classical Literature
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    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.

    Awards

    Winner of the 2013 PROSE Award for Classics and Ancient History

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