REVEALING ANTIQUITY

Preface
Introduction
1. “Who Are Public Workers”: The Migrant Craftsmen
- Historical Background
- Oriental Products in Greece
- Writing and Literature in the Eighth Century
- The Problem of Loan-Words
2. “A Seer or a Healer”: Magic and Medicine
- “Craftsmen of the Sacred”: Mobility and Family Structure
- Hepatoscopy
- Foundation Deposits
- Purification
- Spirits of the Dead and Black Magic
- Substitute Sacrifice
- Asclepius and Asgelatas
- Ecstatic Divination
- Lamashtu, Lamia, and Gorgo
3. “Or Also a Godly Singer”: Akkadian and Early Greek Literature
- From Atrahasis to the “Deception of Zeus”
- Complaint in Heaven: Ishtar and Aphrodite
- The Overpopulated Earth
- Seven against Thebes
- Common Style and Stance in Oriental and Greek Epic
- Fables
- Magic and Cosmogony
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Notes
Index of Greek Words
General Index

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