Hesiod and Hávamál : Transitions and the Transmission of Wisdom

KNOWLEDGE, SUFFERING AND THE PERFORMANCE OF WISDOM IN SOLON'SELEGY TO THE MUSESAND THE BABYLONIANPOEM OF THE RIGHTEOUS SUFFERER

“…6Thus, I adopt the kind of approach espoused by George (2012), 232–41, North and Worthington (2012), Haubold (2013) and (2014), Canevaro (2014) and Stocker (2017), all of whom compare specific aspects of a variety of texts of different literatures, attempting to read them on their own terms rather than focusing on questions of origins and influences. This type of analysis can be traced to the discipline of comparative (or ‘world’) literature, and notably in the principle of a ‘level playing field where no culture … is deemed a priori more important than any other’ (Haubold (2013) 3; on ‘world literature’ see e.g.…”