This book redresses the relative lack of work published on the role of war in classical myth and legend. At the same time it debunks the popular view that the Romans had little mythology of their own and idly borrowed and adapted Greek myth to suit their own ends. While this tru…
Media and culture are interrelated, which shapes what is culturally relevant. War films reflect a culture's view on war as well as the viability of a culture's mythology of war. Grounded in the concepts of war myth and genre, this thesis takes the stance that the Iraq and Afghan…
'The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition' advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient West Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and contributes to studies concerned with how mythological and religious ideas are used to render normative particular…
There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition, Debra Scoggins Ballentine analyzes this motif, arguing that i…
'The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition' advances our understanding of the conflict topos in ancient West Asian and early Jewish and Christian literatures and contributes to studies concerned with how mythological and religious ideas are used to render normative particular…