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Tables of Contents for The Orientalizing Revolution
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction
1
8
``Who Are Public Workers'': The Migrant Craftsmen
9
32
Historical Background
9
5
Oriental Products in Greece
14
11
Writing and Literature in the Eighth Century
25
8
The Problem of Loan-Words
33
8
``A Seer or a Healer'': Magic and Medicine
41
47
``Craftsmen of the Sacred'': Mobility and Family Structure
41
5
Hepatoscopy
46
7
Foundation Deposits
53
2
Purification
55
10
Spirits of the Dead and Black Magic
65
8
Substitute Sacrifice
73
2
Asclepicus and Asgelatas
75
4
Ecstatic Divination
79
3
Lamashtu, Lamia, and Gorgo
82
6
``Or Also a Godly Singer'': Akkadian and Early Greek Literature
88
40
From Atrahasis to the ``Deception of Zeus''
88
8
Complaint in Heaven: Ishtar and Aphrodite
96
4
The Overpopulated Earth
100
6
Seven against Thebes
106
8
Common Style and Stance in Oriental and Greek Epic
114
6
Fables
120
4
Magic and Cosmogony
124
4
Conclusion
128
3
Abbreviations
131
4
Bibliography
135
18
Notes
153
66
Index of Greek Words
219
2
General Index
221