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In the shadow of the wall (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs



 		Keywords
idioms
shadows
walls
Period
7th century BCE
Greek Archaic Age 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek poets

Text
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 7.3.22-24:
(Enkidu cursing Šamhat:) ‘The crossroads shall be your sitting-place, the wasteland shall be your couch, the shadow of a wall shall be your standing-place.’

Archilochus 36, 37:
They lay down by the wall, in its shadow; for such is the enclosing barrier that runs round the court.

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Archilochus 36
Archilochus 37
Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 7.3.22-24

Bibliography

West 1997, 498West, 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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