Jan van Dijk Livres

The first study to focus on the numerous ancient Greek fables occurring outside (and predating) the extant fable collections.Divided into three parts, its core is an intertextual analysis of the functions of fables and their allusions. Here the author covers many different authors and a variety of genres in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Greek Literature, ranging from lyric to historiography, from Aristotle to Hesiod and from Agamemnon to Zopyrus.This analysis is based on a study of both modern and ancient fable theory - the latter having hitherto never been studied in toto , and incorporating the Graeco-Roman terminology of the genre.The book's third part is a collection of all texts (and contexts) studied, which greatly facilitates cross-referencing.

This volume contains all of the Sumerian incantations from the time of the Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100–2000 B. C.) housed in the Hilprecht Collection of Near Eastern Antiquities, Jena, along with some related texts from other collections. The edition of this important and difficult corpus of texts, which predominantly stem from the ancient city of Nippur, is based on a manuscript by the famous assyriologist J. J. van Dijk, who died in 1996. Van Dijk’s posthumous manuscript was revised by Joachim Oelsner and enlarged significantly by Markham J. Geller. For each cuneiform text the edition provides a transliteration, translation and philological commentary as well as hand copies and photographs. The vocabulary is fully documented in a comprehensive glossary.