Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Tables

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - Contexts

pp 17-18

Chapter 1 - ‘Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen’

pp 19-36

Chapter 2 - Siting the Gods

pp 37-57

Chapter 3 - Politics, Cult, and Scholarship

pp 58-79

Chapter 4 - The Scholar and the Poet

pp 80-106

Part II - Influence

pp 107-108

Chapter 5 - Playing with Traditions

pp 109-125

Chapter 6 - Etana in Greece

pp 126-144

Chapter 7 - Of Gods and Men

pp 145-153

Chapter 8 - Tales of Kings and Cup-Bearers in History and Myth

pp 154-168

Chapter 9 - Heroes and Nephilim

pp 169-184

Chapter 10 - Berossus and Babylonian Cosmogony

pp 185-198

Part III - Difference

pp 199-200

Chapter 11 - Borrowing, Dialogue and Rejection

pp 201-214

Chapter 12 - Divine Labour

pp 215-228

Chapter 13 - Influence and Inheritance

pp 229-242

Chapter 14 - Fate and Authority in Mesopotamian Literature and the Iliad

pp 243-261

Chapter 15 - Fashioning Pandora

pp 262-275

Chapter 16 - Sexing and Gendering the Succession Myth in Hesiod and the Ancient Near East

pp 276-291

Bibliography

pp 292-339

Index

pp 340-342