Promise-giving and treaty-making : Homer and the Near East /

Promise-giving and treaty-making : Homer and the Near East /

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, Peter Karavites argu...

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Main Author: Karavites, Peter.

Other Authors: Wren, Thomas E.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1992.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 119.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

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Homer > History.
Homer.
Epic poetry, Greek > Mycenaean influences.
Treaties in literature.
Civilization, Mycenaean, in literature.
Literature.
Middle East > In literature.
Middle East.
History.

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Call Number: PA4037 .K37 1992

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