Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This lecture addresses the question of when and under what conditions the reception of Oriental traditions took place in ancient Greek culture. As a result of spectacular theories about the Oriental origins of Homer's epics, the question has once again become an issue of current interest, arousing controversial debate. Albrecht Dihle covers the relevant material step by step: from the Oriental loanwords used in Greek to the art-historical influences of the classical period, right up to the philosophical debates and the mystery cults of the later period. In doing so, his portrayal of the meeting and reciprocal exchange between the East and West in the course of ancient Greek history is at once both vivid and differentiated.
Synopsis
Die Vorlesung widmet sich der Frage, wann und unter welchen Umstnden die Rezeption orientalischer Traditionen in der antiken griechischen Kultur stattfand. Durch spektakulre Thesen ber die orientalische Herkunft der homerischen Epen ist die Frage in jngster Zeit wieder hchst aktuell geworden und wird kontrovers diskutiert. Albrecht Dihle geht das einschlgige Material von den orientalischen Lehnwrtern im Griechischen ber die kunstgeschichtlichen Einflsse der klassischen Zeit bis hin zu den philosophischen Diskursen und den Mysterienkulten der Sptzeit Punkt fr Punkt durch. Auf diese Weise zeichnet er ein lebendiges und zugleich differenziertes Bild der Begegnung und des wechselseitigen Austauschs zwischen Ost und West im Laufe der Geschichte des griechischen Altertums.
Synopsis
Besides commemorating the scholar Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918), the series of lectures aims to continue and publicise research in the fields he represented and their neighbouring philological-historical disciplines. In the course of his life, Julius Wellhausen conducted research in three fields: the Old Testament, the New Testament and ancient Arabia, or to put it another way: Judaism, Christianity and early Islam. The annual lectures, named after Wellhausen, are held by the Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Georg-August-Universit t G ttingen.