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Tread on the neck (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list)
Enūma eliš (creation)
04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
04.01 Myths
04.01.04 Enūma eliš (creation)
Royal inscriptions
05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore
05.11 Historiography
05.11.01 Royal inscriptions
Trampling foot
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.09 Symbolism of gestures
02.09.03 Trampling foot

Keywords
power
yoke

Period
6th century BCE
Greek Archaic Age
Sumerian Ur III Empire

Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek poets
Sumerian poetry

Text
Gudea Cylinder B 18.11:
(Gudea) set foot on the neck of evil ones and malcontents.

Enūma Eliš 2.146:
(Marduk to Anšar:) ‘upon Tiamat’s neck you will very soon be treading’.

Theognis 847-850:
Trample this empty-witted people down, apply the sharp goad, lay on them heavy yoke: you will find no people so in love with tyranny in any land the sun looks down upon.

Iambic Tetrameter:
Tread on his/their neck, yes, tread him/them to the ground.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Iambic Tetrameter
Enūma Eliš 2.146
Gudea Cylinder B 18.11
Theognis 847-850

Bibliography

West 1997, 519-520

West, 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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