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There is a city called … (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry

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Period
Greek Archaic Age
Hittite Empire 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek poets
Hittite culture

Text
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 11.11-12:
Šuruppak (is) a city, which you yourself know, [which] is situated [on the bank] of Euphrates.

Story of Appu (Hittite):
(There is) a city, its name (is) Sudul, and it is in the land of Lulluwa on the sea coast. Up there lived a man named Appu.

Homer, Iliad 6.152-153:
There is a city Ephyra in a nook of horse-pasturing Argos, and there Sisyphus dwelt, the most cunning of men.

Homer, Odyssey 13.96:
There is a certain city Thryoessa, a steep hill, far off by the Alpheus.

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Story of Appu (Hittite)
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 11.11-12
Homer, Iliad 6.152-153
Homer, Odyssey 13.96

Bibliography

West 1997, 259West, 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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