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Gathering of the assembly (1)

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



 		Keywords
assemblies
gods
Period
Greek Archaic Age 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek poets

Text
Atrahasis Epic:
Enlil set up his assembly, he addressed the gods his sons.

Anzu Epic 1.21:
The Igigi-gods were all (in a) gathered (state), to Enlil their father, the war[rior of the gods].

Homer, Iliad 8.2:
Zeus set up an assembly of gods … and he himself addressed them.

Homer, Odyssey 1.26:
(All the gods) were gathered together in Olympian Zeus’ halls.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Anzu Epic 1.21
Atrahasis Epic
Homer, Iliad 8.2
Homer, Odyssey 1.26

Bibliography

West 1997, 177-178West, 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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