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Victory awarded by gods (1)

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


 		Keywords
battles
gods
power
Period
5th century BCE
Greek Classical Age
Middle Assyrian Empire 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek poets

Text
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic 3.A.13-19:
(Tukulti-Ninurta’s message to the Cassite king:) ‘When we meet in battle let [Šamaš?] judge the case between us. We shall meet on that day like a just man who despoils a criminal. Peace will not be established without conflict [ … ...]. Good relations will not be created without a fight until [ … ...] … So come onto the subjects’ battlefield, let us settle the case.’

Aeschylus, Agamemnon 813-816:
For the gods heard the case, not orally but in men’s deaths, and for Ilion’s destruction into the bloody urn unanimous they placed their votes.

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Aeschylus, Agamemnon 813-816
Tukulti-Ninurta Epic 3.A.13-19

Bibliography

West 1997, 565West, 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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