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Catalogue of Women (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
destruction of mankind
punishments
Zeus
Period
Greek Archaic Age
Neo-Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Greek poets

Text
The Greek poem Catalogue of Women has a Mesopotamian motif that Zeus planned to reduce the human population, by bringing the age of heroes to a close.

Catalogue of Women 204.95-101:
Now all the gods were divided in two parties by dissension, for just then Zeus who roars on high was planning tremendous things, to stir up troubles (?) on the boundless earth. For now he was eager to annihilate the multitudinous human race, giving as his ground the perdition of the Half-gods’ lives [ … ] children of the gods [ … ].

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Catalogue of Women 204.95-101

Bibliography

Burkert 1992, 102Burkert, Walter. The Orientalizing Revolution. Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Period. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1992.
West 1997, 480West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus


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