Greece and Mesopotamia - Haubold, Johannes (University of Durham)
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Proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. All passages of Greek and Akkadian are translated.

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Proposes a new approach to the study of ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature. Ranging from Homer and Gilgamesh to Herodotus and the Babylonian-Greek author Berossos, it paints a picture of two literary cultures that, over the course of time, became profoundly entwined. All passages of Greek and Akkadian are translated.
Autorenporträt
Johannes Haubold is Professor of Greek at Durham University. He is the author of numerous publications on Greek literature in its historical and cultural context, including Homer's People (Cambridge University Press, 2000); Homer: The Resonance of Epic (2005, with B. Graziosi) and Homer: Iliad VI (Cambridge University Press, 2010, with B. Graziosi). He has edited Plato and Hesiod (2010, with G. Boys-Stones) and is currently editing the first ever collected volume on the Babylonian-Greek priest and historian Berossos, entitled The World of Berossos (with G. Lanfranchi, R. Rollinger and J. Steele).