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Variations on Violence in Greek and Akkadian Succession Myths

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Abstract

In this article I explore a selection of texts from Greece and Mesopotamia that either recount or comment on the succession myth. I argue that representations of violence in those texts differ considerably within the same culture and time period. I explain these variations as social deixis, positing that ancient authors and interpreters of the succession myth used different representations of violence to present themselves as innovative figures. I argue that both mythmakers and myth-interpreters increased and decreased the intensity and number of violent features to mark a position in the competitive field of cosmological knowledge. Through the comparison of the sources, I show that there was as much competition and innovation in Greece as in Mesopotamia within the field of cosmology. The similarity of social contexts and practices may explain the cross-cultural transfer of knowledge between specialists of these two regions.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Bill Olmsted and the TiC anonymous reviewers for their very valuable comments that helped me improve this article. I would also like to express my gratitude to my colleagues Denise Demetriou, Page duBois, Monte Johnson, and Edward Watts at the University of California, San Diego for their feedback on an earlier version of this paper presented at the first UCSD-FUDAN conference.

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