Text
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.87-89:
(Siduri to Gilgameš:) ‘O Gilgameš, there is Ur-šanabi, the boatman of Utanapišti, and the Stone Ones are with him as he strips a cedar in the midst of the forest. Go, then, and let him see your face! … (Ur-šanabi to Gilgameš:) Take up, Gilgameš, the axe in [your] hand, go down to the forest and [cut me three hundred] punting-poles, each five rods long. Trim and furnish (each) with a boss, he took [them to … ].
Homer, Odyssey 5.162-164:
(Calypso to Odysseus:) “Unhappy man, sorrow no longer here, I pray you, nor let your life pine away; for even now with a ready heart will I send you on your way. Nay, come, hew with the axe long beams, and make a broad raft, and fasten upon it cross-planks for a deck well above it, that it may bear you over the misty deep.
Homer, Odyssey 5.234-246:
She gave him a great axe, well fitted to his hands, an axe of bronze, sharpened on both sides; and in it was a beautiful handle of olive wood, securely fastened; and thereafter she gave him a polished daze. Then she led the way to the borders of the island where tall trees were standing, alder and popular and fir, reaching to the skies, long dry and well-seasoned, which would float for him lightly. But when she had shewn him where the tall trees grew, Calypso, the beautiful goddess, returned homewards, but he fell to cutting timbers, and his work went forward apace. Twenty trees in all did he fell, and trimmed them with the axe; then he cunningly smoothed them all and made them straight to the line.
Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.87-89
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 10.159-162
Homer, Odyssey 5.162-164
Homer, Odyssey 5.234-246
Bibliography
| West 1997, 411 | West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997. |
Amar Annus
URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0001268.php
|
