Die Hethitische Literatur: Texte, Stilistik, Motive

by Volkert Haas

This unique work provides a compendium of Hittite literary texts of all genres with detailed extracts and paraphrases and furnishes a comprehensible non-specialist commentary. In his selection, Volkert Haas takes account both of stylistic features and in particular of the traditions of motives and topoi in Ancient Greece and in the Old Testament.

362 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent source for translations of Hittite texts with comparisons to ancient literature of Greece and the Near East.