Naming the gods: traditional verse-making in Homer and Old Babylonian Akkadian poetry
This is an investigation of character-naming expressions in early Greek (ca. eighth–sixth c. BC) and Old Babylonian Akkadian narrative poetry (ca. nineteenth–seventeenth c. BC). It compares the mentions of Zeus and Enlil (the Babylonian chief god) in Iliad Book 8 and OB Atra-hasis, and proposes a th...
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Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures
2024-03-01
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| Series: | Manuscript and Text Cultures |
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| Online Access: | https://mtc-journal.org/index.php/mtc/article/view/49 |