Promise-giving and treaty-making : : Homer and the Near East / / by Peter (Panayiotis) Karavites, with the collaboration of Thomas Wren.

This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics that they reflect only the institutions and ideas of the Dark Ages, during which they were composed, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Comparing evidence from the Near East with the Homeric corpus, Peter Karavites argu...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 119
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1992.
Year of Publication:1992
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, Supplements 119.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 224 pages)
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