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Language and Cosmos in Greece and Mesopotamia

Autor Jacobo Myerston
en Hardback – 5 apr 2023
Theorizing about language and its place in the world began long before Plato and Aristotle. In this book, Jacobo Myerston traces the trajectories of various proto-linguistic traditions that circulated between Greece and Mesopotamia before the institutionalization of Greek philosophy. By following the threads of transcultural conversations, the author shows the impact of Mesopotamian semantics and hermeneutics on early Greek thinkers. He reconstructs the Greek appropriation of Mesopotamian semantics while arguing that, despite geographical distance and cultural constraints, the Greeks adopted and transformed Babylonian cosmological and linguistic concepts in a process leading to new discoveries. This book covers conceptions of signification present in cuneiform word lists, esoteric syllabaries, commentaries, literary texts like Enuma elish, Gilgamesh, Hesiod's Theogony, and the Homeric Hymns as well as the philosophical commentary preserved in the Derveni papyrus.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009289924
ISBN-10: 1009289926
Pagini: 228
Dimensiuni: 237 x 158 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Babylonian Theories of Language; 2 Language and Cosmos in the Epic of Creation; 3. Hesiod, Language, and the Names of Ishtar; 4. Orpheus' Cosmic Names.

Descriere

Argues that Greek thinkers engaged with linguistic concepts developed by Mesopotamian scribes in a process leading to new discoveries.