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Chapter 6 - Etana in Greece

from Part II - Influence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2021

By
Bruno Currie
Edited by
Adrian Kelly  and
Christopher Metcalf
Adrian Kelly
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Christopher Metcalf
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

This chapter investigates the links between the Akkadian poem Etana, the fragmentary Lykambes epode of the archaic Greek poet Archilochus, and the Aesopic fable of The Eagle and the Fox, carefully assessing both similarities and differences in these sources as well as in further, related Greek material, and also considering the possibility of further versions of Etana in India, Egypt and the folklore of the Baltic region. Taken together, these reflections lead to a distinction, in particular, between a floating motif model and a fixed text model of transmission, both of which may be discernible in the various manifestations of Etana in Greece and beyond.

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fableinteractionArchilochusEtanatransmissionmotifs
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Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology , pp. 126 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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