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Promise-Giving and Treaty Making: Homer and the Near East (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

Name: Promise-Giving and Treaty Making: Homer and the Near East (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Author: Peter Karavites
ISBN: 9789004095670

Peter Karavites

240 pages

Brill Academic Pub

Dec 1991

Hardcover

Literature & Fiction WSBN

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Promise-giving and Treaty-making Challenges the current view of the Homeric epics, according to which they reflect only the institutions and ideas of their own time, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. The author uses a comparative analysis of evidence from the Near East and the Homeric corpus. Full description