Description
The Dictionary of Ancient Close to Eastern Mythology covers sources from Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine and Anatolia, from around 2800 to 300 BC. It comprises entries on gods and goddesses, giving evidence in their worship in temples, describing their ‘character’, as documented by the texts, and defining their roles throughout the body of mythological narratives; synoptic entries on myths, giving the place of birth of main texts and a brief history in their transmission during the a while; and entries explaining the usage of specialist terminology, for things like categories of Sumerian texts or varieties of mythological figures.