The Politics of Beginnings
Hesiod and the Assyrian Ideological Appropriation of Enuma Eliš
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 19476259 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Marcus Ziemann (0000-0002-2718-9048, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2020 |
| Volumen | 21-22 |
| Número | 1 |
| Páginas | 343-368 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2020-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Archiv für Religionsgeschichte (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1436-3038 • E-ISSN: 1868-8888 |
| Editorial | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/arege-2020-0018 |
| OpenAlex | W3112189671 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 48 |
This article proposes a new way to understand Near Eastern literary and mythological parallels in Hesiod’s Theogony by focusing on the meaning of these parallels for a contemporary Greek audience. In particular, a case study analyzing a parallel shared by the Theogony and Enuma eliš is pursued here to illustrate this approach’s utility. This new approach draws partly on methodologies borrowed from the study of globalization and combines these methodologies with recent insights into the ideological motivations for Greeks’ deployment of Oriental(izing) art in the Orientalizing Period (ca. 750 – 650 BCE). Rather than focusing on individual parallels out of context or on diachronically stable elements that creation stories around the eastern Mediterranean shared, this article instead reconstructs a contemporary ideological background with the Neo-Assyrian Empire at the center of a globalizing Mediterranean. Because the Assyrians invested Enuma eliš with new ideological meaning at this time and broadcast this through their propaganda, the Akkadian creation epic could take on new meaning in an international context. It is consequently possible that specific correspondences Enuma eliš and the Theogony share show Hesiod subverting Assyrian ideological discourses. The subjects discussed here have implications for our broader understanding of Greek-Near Eastern interactions of the Orientalizing Period
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Appropriation · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Greeks · Hesiod · Ideology · Literature · Parallels · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Ancient Near East History · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
The East Face of Helicon
Simonides the Poet
Epic and Empire
Greece and Mesopotamia
Listening to Homer
Sennacherib and the Tablet of Destinies
Hesiod’s Theogony
The Origins of Isaiah 24–27
The Strong Principle of Equality and the Archaic Origins of Greek Democracy
Globalisation and the Roman world
I Undertook Great Works«
Postoral Homer
Glocalization
Hellenic Identity and Greek Colonisation
From Hittite to Homer
Greeks and Barbarians
Globalisation and the Roman World
What Is Global Studies
The Role of Creation in Enūma eliš
Ethnicity and Greek History
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization
Mediterraneanization
Colonial Engagements in the Global Mediterranean Iron Age
Assyria and Its Image in the First Isaiah
When the Gods Were Born
Revenge, Assyrian Style
Early History of the Alphabet
The land of assur and the yoke of assur
Oral Tradition as History
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |