Promise-Giving and Treaty Making: Homer and the Near EastBRILL, 1992 - 224 หน้า This book challenges the current view of the Homeric epics, according to which they reflect only the institutions and ideas of their own time, telling us nothing about the Mycenaean Age preceding it. Using a comparative analysis of evidence from the Near East and the Homeric corpus, Peter Karavites comes to the bold conclusion that the epics actually contain much that harks back to the Mycenaean Age, and that the two eras may not be completely discontinuous after all. Most contemporary scholars maintain that the mighty Mycenaean period was almost completely separated from the Dark Ages and that virtually no evidence of the former remains, with the exception of the archeological finds and the meager testimony of the Linear B tablets. However, the Near Eastern evidence about treaties and other forms of promising suggests that the Iliad and Odyssey may indeed provide historical pictures of the Mycenaean times featured in their narratives. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Corpus of Homeric Agreements | 17 |
The Linguistic Evidence | 48 |
The Structure of Homeric Agreements | 82 |
Other Features of Homeric Agreements | 108 |
PART | 125 |
War Conventions | 157 |
Conventions Associated with TreatyMaking | 179 |
Continuity or Discontinuity? | 201 |
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Achaeans Achilles Agamemnon Alaksandus alliance Ancient Near East animal aristocratic assembly Athenians Athens brotherhood burial Calchas century B.C. ceremony Chryses common conventions council curses custom Diomedes divine Dolon duel Eastern treaties elders Esarhaddon Eust evidence formal formula Friedrich friendship fugitives gods Gortyn Greece Greek Greek world Gschnitzer Hector Helen Hera Hesiod Hittite Hittite king Hittite treaties Homeric agreements Homeric epics Homeric world horkia horkos Idomeneus Iliad instance ISBN 90 Korosec later leaders lord Mattiwaza meal Menelaus Mitanni Mursilis Mursilis II Mycenae Mycenaean world Nestor oath oath-taking obligations Odysseus Odysseus's oral Othryoneus Paris parties Patroclus Peleus Persian philotês Phoenix pledge political practices Priam promise proposal reference relationship ritual sacrifice seems similar solemnized Staatsverträge stipulations Suppiluliumas swear temenos temnein tradition Treaty and Covenant treaty-making Trojans Troy vassal violation Weidner Zeus γὰρ δέ εἰ ἐπὶ καὶ κεν μή μοι τε τοι