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Promise-giving and treaty-making: Homer and the Near East
by Karavites, Peter, Wren, Thomas
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Promise-giving and treaty-making: Homer and the Near East
by Karavites, Peter, Wren, Thomas
fromMnemosyne
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Type: Book
This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics that they reflect only the institutions and ideas of the Dark Ages, during which they were composed, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Comparing evidence from the Near East with the Homeric corpus,…
This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics, according to which they reflect only the institutions and ideas of their own time, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Using a comparative analysis of evidence from the Near East and the Homeric cor…