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- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Chapter 1 ‘Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen’
- Chapter 2 Siting the Gods
- Chapter 3 Politics, Cult, and Scholarship
- Chapter 4 The Scholar and the Poet
- Part II Influence
- Part III Difference
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Siting the Gods
Narrative, Cult, and Hybrid Communities in the Iron Age Mediterranean
from Part I - Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2021
- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts
- Chapter 1 ‘Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen’
- Chapter 2 Siting the Gods
- Chapter 3 Politics, Cult, and Scholarship
- Chapter 4 The Scholar and the Poet
- Part II Influence
- Part III Difference
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter traces a path across the Mediterranean in locating the sites where Greek, Semitic (in particular Phoenician) and native populations interacted, the author’s premise being that ‘the literary and mythological entanglements, for the most part, followed the human entanglements’. Starting from the same Mount Hazzi or Jebel al-Aqra (here called Mount Saphon, by its Semitic name) and crossing first to Crete and from there to Iberia, López-Ruiz draws attention to Near Eastern Storm God narratives that are less well-known than the Song of Emergence but that similarly shaped Greek mythological and cultic conceptions of Zeus: these historically less successful narratives tend to furnish the Storm God with a fuller life cycle, including birth, journeys in maturity, and even death.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021