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Wisdom in loose form : the language of Egyptian and Greek proverbs in collections of the Hellenistic and Roman periods /
Drawing on proverbs and proverb-like sentences found in Ancient Egyptian and Greek wisdom collections, this book offers an insight into the literary production of these two Mediterranean civilizations, comparing their manner of conveying timeless wisdom and reconsidering the status of their cultural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2007.
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| Colección: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
287. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One. Introduction; Chapter Two. The Egyptian and Greek Corpus; Chapter Three. The Language and Classification of the Proverbs; Chapter Four. The Monopartite Proverbs; Chapter Five. The Bipartite and Multipartite Proverbs; Chapter Six. The Style and Semantics of the Proverbs; Chapter Seven. The Proverbs and their Collections; Chapter Eight. Summary of Similarities and Differences, and Conclusions; Appendix A. List of Proverbs Omitted from the Analysis; Appendix B. List of Structural Models with Further Examples.