In the Iliad (O 185-199), Zeus, Hades and Poseidon draw lots to divide the world into divine provinces. This myth is attested for the first time in Greek in the Iliad, and finds several parallels in later Greek tradition. However, these parallels are not sufficient to account for its exceptional nature in the context of Homeric epic. Another, non-Greek, parallel seems to offer a key to the solution of this problem – namely a similar myth of Mesopotamian origin, which appears in Atram-Hasis, an Akkadian cuneiform text. This article reconstructs the possible ways in which the Mesopotamian myth reached the Greek-speaking world at the time the Homeric epics were being composed. Through a systematic study of the affinities and differences betwee...
Two case studies of myths and rituals related to Zeus and kingship are here employed to suggest new ...
This article aims at exploring the imperfect and deformed anthropomorphism of three different divine...
Ce travail est une étude mythologique portant principalement sur deux figures héroïques grecques, Pé...
In the Iliad (O 185-199), Zeus, Hades and Poseidon draw lots to divide the world into divine provinc...
This thesis charts divine assembly scenes in ancient Mesopotamian narrative poetry and the early Gre...
A striking feature in Homer’s Iliad is the frequent physical struggle between humans and the divine....
This is a study of the epic vocabulary and of the typical epic scene of sortition, with the differen...
International audienceStarting with the parallelism between Aphrodite’s girdle and the aegis, and ta...
The Prosperity's Goddess in the Mesopotamian and Egean Myths of the Descent to the Nether World Th...
Homeric Hymns to Demeter and to Aphrodite, hymns and poems of Mesopotamia: comparisons By comparing...
Societies of the Ancient Near East developed various complex pantheons that were frequently modified...
This thesis project puts forward a new glance on the ancient Greek and Mesopotamian systems of relig...
This thesis project puts forward a new glance on the ancient Greek and Mesopotamian systems of relig...
Au cours de la seconde moitié du IIe siècle avant notre ère, la cité carienne de Bargylia entreprend...
Analysing « "myths" of "kingship" », conflict », judgement », cosmos "organisation" » and/or "kingdo...
Two case studies of myths and rituals related to Zeus and kingship are here employed to suggest new ...
This article aims at exploring the imperfect and deformed anthropomorphism of three different divine...
Ce travail est une étude mythologique portant principalement sur deux figures héroïques grecques, Pé...
In the Iliad (O 185-199), Zeus, Hades and Poseidon draw lots to divide the world into divine provinc...
This thesis charts divine assembly scenes in ancient Mesopotamian narrative poetry and the early Gre...
A striking feature in Homer’s Iliad is the frequent physical struggle between humans and the divine....
This is a study of the epic vocabulary and of the typical epic scene of sortition, with the differen...
International audienceStarting with the parallelism between Aphrodite’s girdle and the aegis, and ta...
The Prosperity's Goddess in the Mesopotamian and Egean Myths of the Descent to the Nether World Th...
Homeric Hymns to Demeter and to Aphrodite, hymns and poems of Mesopotamia: comparisons By comparing...
Societies of the Ancient Near East developed various complex pantheons that were frequently modified...
This thesis project puts forward a new glance on the ancient Greek and Mesopotamian systems of relig...
This thesis project puts forward a new glance on the ancient Greek and Mesopotamian systems of relig...
Au cours de la seconde moitié du IIe siècle avant notre ère, la cité carienne de Bargylia entreprend...
Analysing « "myths" of "kingship" », conflict », judgement », cosmos "organisation" » and/or "kingdo...
Two case studies of myths and rituals related to Zeus and kingship are here employed to suggest new ...
This article aims at exploring the imperfect and deformed anthropomorphism of three different divine...
Ce travail est une étude mythologique portant principalement sur deux figures héroïques grecques, Pé...