Kingship in Heaven in Anatolia, Syria and Greece. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence

Rutherford, Ian

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“…Rollinger (2015: 8), who recognizes that neither the chronological nor geographical dimensions of the potential contact between Homeric poetry and its Ancient Near Eastern counterparts can be empirically verified (Rollinger 2015: 12-16 further argues that these issues can in principle be addressed with adequate methodology); also López-Ruiz, Karahashi, Ziemann (2018: 86), who assert that "the modes or areas of transmission are as yet only hypothetical (and likely to remain so)". For possible answers to the problems of transmission see López-Ruiz (2010; Louden (2011);Rollinger (2015); Bachvarova (2016); Currie (2016);López-Ruiz, Karahashi, Ziemann (2018); Rutherford (2018); West (2018). 9 Compare Cooley's criteria for the recognition of reflexes of contemporary celestial sciences in the literature of ancient Mesopotamia: (1) the presence of celestial deities in their astral manifestations or celestial phenomena, (2) the presence of terminology commonly used in celestial sciences and (3) the presence of concepts known to and used in contemporary celestial sciences (Cooley 2013: 88).…”

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Following in the Footsteps of the Sun: Gilgameš, Odysseus and Solar Movement, AION-or (Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Sezione orientale) 82/2022, 3−37

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2022

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During the heyday of the solar-myth paradigm it was a norm to interpret every singlemythic character and his or her actions in terms of either the annual or diurnal solarmovement. With the paradigm’s inevitable demise, the body of evidence that was centralto its approach was relegated to a more peripheral position by the adherents ofsucceeding paradigms that successively dominated the field. This has left a significantnumber of references to solar phenomena in ancient text on the margins of scholarlyinterest, including those that appear in the central texts of both Mesopotamianand Greek traditions. This paper focuses on a re-evaluation of the presence of solarresonances in a section of the Epic of Gilgameš that contains clear and explicit referencesto the sun and its course. At the same time, following in the footsteps of manyearlier scholars, it offers a parallel analysis of a section of Odysseus’ itinerary of a similarcharacter. This re-evaluation has shown that the respective sections of the heroes’itineraries are partly structured on an analogy with solar movement, but that thedominant use of solar references in these texts is more haphazard and reflects morecircumscribed intentions of the texts’ authors.

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confidence: 99%

Following in the Footsteps of the Sun: Gilgameš, Odysseus and Solar Movement, AION-or (Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Sezione orientale) 82/2022, 3−37

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2022

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Variations on Violence in Greek and Akkadian Succession Myths

Myerston

2022

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In this article I explore a selection of texts from Greece and Mesopotamia that either recount or comment on the succession myth. I argue that representations of violence in those texts differ considerably within the same culture and time period. I explain these variations as social deixis, positing that ancient authors and interpreters of the succession myth used different representations of violence to present themselves as innovative figures. I argue that both mythmakers and myth-interpreters increased and decreased the intensity and number of violent features to mark a position in the competitive field of cosmological knowledge. Through the comparison of the sources, I show that there was as much competition and innovation in Greece as in Mesopotamia within the field of cosmology. The similarity of social contexts and practices may explain the cross-cultural transfer of knowledge between specialists of these two regions.

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Kingship in Heaven in Anatolia, Syria and Greece. Patterns of Convergence and Divergence

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Following in the Footsteps of the Sun: Gilgameš, Odysseus and Solar Movement, AION-or (Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Sezione orientale) 82/2022, 3−37

Following in the Footsteps of the Sun: Gilgameš, Odysseus and Solar Movement, AION-or (Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. Sezione orientale) 82/2022, 3−37

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Variations on Violence in Greek and Akkadian Succession Myths

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