Near Eastern creation mythos effects on Greek creation mythos
2015
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Advisor: Yrd. Doç. Dr. Işık Adak Adıbelli
Abstract (EN)
Mythos are literary examples which can reflect the best, the history of a civilization and they lived events to next generations. Generally, these mythos are based on two principles as one of the miracle of reproduction and complex movement of stars and other celestial objects. Mythos which product of dreams show unusual forms but also host a a scientific fact. In this context, creation mythos of the Ancient Greek Civilization was assumed that the original until end of the XVII. Century. However, at the end of XIX. Century and XX. Century, scientific research about Sumerian, Babylonian, Hurrian, Hittite, Phoenician civilization showed that the origin of these mythos should be searched in the Near East. For the first time, Homer stated, Greek gods ancestry, authority and honoring between the gods, in written form in his books, the "Iliad and the Odyssey". After that, Hesiod expresses the Greek mythos of creation in his books "Theogony and Works" and "Days". When these works as compared with results obtained from Near East research, it appears that, both Greek philosophers fictionalized the Greek creation mythos, influenced by these mythos and decorated it with their own cultural values Keywords: Myth, Sumer, Hurri, Hittite, Phoenicia, Greek, Homer, Hesiod
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Dr. Derya Kaya Birge
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Derya Kaya Birge (Master Thesis). Near Eastern creation mythos effects on Greek creation mythos, 2015, Ahi Evran University.
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