Three Myths of Kingship in Early Greece and the Ancient Near East - The Servant, the Lover, and the Fool

"Starting from detailed reconsiderations of a wide range of ancient Near Eastern literary sources, the book proposes original and persuasive readings of familiar early Greek authors including Homer, Hesiod and Herodotus, and of other famous works such as the Hebrew Bible"--

List of contents

1. The Myth of the Servant; 2. The Myth of the Goddess and the Herdsman; 3. King, Priest and Poet.

About the author

CHRISTOPHER METCALF is Associate Professor in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Classics at The Queen's College. His research focuses on the languages, literatures and religions of the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East. His publications include The Gods Rich in Praise: Early Greek and Mesopotamian Religious Poetry (2015) and Sumerian Literary Texts in the Schøyen Collection: Literary Sources on Old Babylonian Religion (2019).

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Metcalf, Christopher (University of Oxford) Metcalf, Metcalf Christopher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009481496
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0948149-6
• No. of pages: 302
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman literature