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In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos. In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can comparison tell us besides? This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance underst
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- Author
- Bernardo Ballesteros
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2025
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198924593
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Language Arts & Disciplines, Language
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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