[PDF.43jr] When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East

When the Gods Were Born: Greek Cosmogonies and the Near East

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 | #895667 in Books |  2010-06-15 |  2010-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.66 x.99 x6.16l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Important reframing|By Wayne Dynes|This book discloses two important new perspectives. First, we should no longer think of the Near East-Greek nexus as simply one of donor-recipient in which the older cultures of Western Asia simply exported ideas and motifs, which were then reframed by the Greeks. Instead, she believes that one should speak of a larger koine, in which these el| |With admirable erudition, López-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the ancient Mediterranean as a fluid, dynamic contact zone. She shows networks of circulation, crea

Ancient Greece has for too long been studied in isolation from its Near Eastern neighbors. And the ancient Near East itself has for too long been seen as an undifferentiated cultural monolith. Classics and Near Eastern Studies, in our modern universities, continue to be separated by various disciplinary, linguistic, and ideological walls. Yet there is a growing trend to dismantle these divides and look at the Greek world within its fullest geographical and cultural co...

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