Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia

Informationen zum Autor JACOBO MYERSTON is an Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Klappentext "A ground-breaking analysis of the origins of Western linguistic thought, exploring how ancient Greek and Mesopotamian thinkers saw the relationship between human symbols and the universe. By examining neglected primary sources, the book offers fresh reconstructions of how these thinkers conceived the interrelation of language and reality"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Babylonian Theories of Language; 2 Language and Cosmos in the Epic of Creation; 3. Hesiod, Language, and the Names of Ishtar; 4. Orpheus' Cosmic Names.

Product details

• Authors: Jacobo Myerston, Jacobo (University of California Myerston
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781009289924
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0928992-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient Sagas and epics, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Babylonia, Ancient Greek and Roman literature, Historical and comparative linguistics, Assyro-Babylonian (Akkadian) languages, Old Testaments