Abstract
Singers of tales in the ancient Levantine and Mediterranean worlds shared storytelling patterns, ritual practices, and ideals of justice, which reappear in recognizable form even as they are expressed in different languages and enacted in different periods. Hesiod reconfigured theogonies and theomachies told in Hurrian, Hittite, and Semitic tongues, while the remission of debts Solon implemented in Athens reincarnated a practice regularized in the Middle Bronze Age Near East. This essay explores the circulation of poetic themes across cultures and centuries, focusing on a Hurrian poem entitled Song of Liberation.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 275-287 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | PASIPHAE |
| Volume | 17 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Deliverance
- Hesiod
- Hittite
- Hurrian
- Liberation
- Poetry
- Solon
- Storm-god
- Theogony
- Translation