Poetic Heroes: The Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World by Mark S. Smith

Poetic Heroes: The Literary Commemorations of Warriors and Warrior Culture in the Early Biblical World

Mark S. Smith

660 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

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In this book Mark Smith undertakes an extensive exploration of "poetic heroes" across a number of ancient cultures in order to understand the attitudes of those cultures toward war and warriors. Smith examines the Iliad and the Gilgamesh; Ugaritic...

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