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| Volume A | |
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| Cross-currents: Creation Myths and Social Realities | |
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| The Babylonian Theogony | |
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| A Memphite Theology | |
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| The Pyramid Texts of Unas (Egypt, c. 2300 B.C.E.), tr | |
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| From Utterance 217: The King Joins the Sun-god | |
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| Utterances 273-274: The King Feeds on the Gods | |
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| Utterance 309: The King Serves the Sun-god | |
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| The Rig Veda | |
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| Hymn of Creation | |
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| Hymn of Man | |
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| Hymn to the Dawn | |
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| Resonance | |
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| From Agganna Sutta (Buddhist counter-creation) | |
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| The Great Hymn to the Aten (Egypt, 14th century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Babylonian Creation Epic (c. 1200 B.C.E.) | |
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| Birth of the Gods. Conflict Begins | |
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| Who will face Tiamat? | |
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| The Gods Commission Marduk | |
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| Marduk and Tiamat at War | |
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| Victory Celebration. Founding of Babylon | |
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| Creation of Humanity | |
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| Hesiod, from Theogony | |
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| Genesis (Israel, c. 900 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Ancient Near East | |
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| Poetry of Love and Devotion | |
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| Last night, as I, the queen, was shining bright (Sumer, c. late 3rd millennium B.C.E.) | |
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| Egyptian Love Songs (2nd millennium B.C.E.) | |
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| The Song of Songs, Jerusalem Bible tr. | |
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| The Epic of Gilgamesh | |
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| Perspectives: Death and Immortality | |
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| The Descent of Ishtar to the Underworld (Babylon, 2nd millennium) | |
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| From The Book of the Dead (Egypt, 2nd millennium) | |
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| Letters to the Dead | |
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| Kabti-Ilani-Marduk, from The Erra Epic (Babylon, c. 8th century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Book of Job (Israel, c. 900 B.C.E.), Revised Standard Version | |
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| Resonances | |
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| From The Babylonian Theodicy | |
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| Psalm 22 (My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) | |
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| Psalm 102 (Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come unto thee!) | |
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| Perspectives: Strangers in a Strange Land | |
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| The Story of Sinuhe (Egypt, c. 1925 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Two Brothers (Egypt, c. 1200 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Joseph Story (Israel, 1st millennium B.C.E.), New International Version | |
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| Genesis 35-50: The Joseph Story | |
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| The Book of Ruth (Israel, c. 6th century B.C.E.), New International Version. Classical Greece | |
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| Homer | |
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| From The Iliad | |
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| Resonances: Oral Composition | |
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| Filip Visnjic: The Death of Kraljevic Marko | |
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| From Sirat Bani Hilal | |
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| Homer | |
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| The Odyssey | |
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| Resonances | |
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| Franz Kafka: The Silence of the Sirens | |
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| George Seferis: Upon a Foreign Verse | |
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| Derek Walcott: From Omeros | |
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| Arkhilokhos, tr. M. L. West | |
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| Encounter in a Meadow | |
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| The Fox and the Hedgehog | |
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| Elegies | |
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| Sappho, tr. M. L. West | |
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| Rich-throned immortal Aphrodite | |
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| Come, goddess | |
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| Some think a fleet | |
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| He looks to me to be in heaven | |
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| Love shakes my heart | |
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| Honestly, I wish I were dead | |
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| She worshipped you | |
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| Like a sweet-apple | |
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| The doorman's feet | |
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| Resonances | |
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| H.D.: from The Wise Sappho | |
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| Alejandra Pizarnik: Poem, Lovers, Recognition, Meaning of His Absence, Dawn, Falling | |
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| Alkaios, tr. M. L. West | |
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| And fluttered Argive Hel | |