Comprehensive Views of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Problematic Balance between the Mythical and the Historical
Documents originating from diverse traditions show that in ancient Mesopotamia the past was conveyed in various ways. Among those texts are royal lists, narratives with strong mythical components, stories with evident literary features, omens that link positive or disastrous results with iconic king...
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I28-R145-8649_oai2025-11-17 Seri, Andrea 2020-09-20 Documents originating from diverse traditions show that in ancient Mesopotamia the past was conveyed in various ways. Among those texts are royal lists, narratives with strong mythical components, stories with evident literary features, omens that link positive or disastrous results with iconic kings, royal inscriptions recounting the exploits of kings and, later, the Assyrian annals that register royal campaigns. There are also chronicles of eclectic content. The agents of change are punishing or rewarding gods, implacable sovereigns or simply change itself. The truthfulness of events and characters from the past, whether mythological, fantastic or real, does not seem to have raised too much suspicion. In this work I analyze the way in which the Sumerian King List and Berossus’s Babyloniaca intertwine fictitious and real events and characters to offer comprehensive views of the past in a game of balance between the mythical and the historical. Documentos provenientes de tradiciones diversas muestran que en la Mesopotamia antigua el pasado se representaba de varias maneras. Entre esos textos se encuentran listas reales, narrativas con fuertes componentes míticos, composiciones con rasgos literarios evidentes, presagios que vinculan resultados positivos o nefastos con reyes icónicos, inscripciones reales que cuentan las hazañas de los gobernantes y, más tarde, aparecen los anales asirios que registran campañas reales. Surgen, también, las crónicas de contenido ecléctico. Los agentes de cambio son dioses que premian o castigan, soberanos implacables o el simple devenir. La veracidad de hechos y personajes del pasado, sean mitológicos, fantásticos o reales, no parece haber despertado demasiadas suspicacias. En este trabajo se analiza la manera en la que la Lista Real Sumeria y la Babiloniaca de Beroso entrelazan hechos y personajes ficticios y reales para ofrecer visiones abarcadoras del pasado en un juego de equilibro entre lo mítico y lo histórico. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rihao/article/view/8649 10.34096/rihao.n21.8649 spa Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rihao/article/view/8649/7583 Revista del Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental 'Dr. Abraham Rosenvasser'; Núm. 21 (2020); 5-25 2683-9660 0325-1209 history historiography Sumerian King List Babyloniaca Berossus historia historiografía Lista Real Sumeria Babiloniaca Beroso Comprehensive Views of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Problematic Balance between the Mythical and the Historical Visiones abarcadoras del pasado en la Mesopotamia antigua: el problemático equilibrio entre lo mítico y lo histórico info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=rihao&d=8649_oai |
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Documents originating from diverse traditions show that in ancient Mesopotamia the past was conveyed in various ways. Among those texts are royal lists, narratives with strong mythical components, stories with evident literary features, omens that link positive or disastrous results with iconic kings, royal inscriptions recounting the exploits of kings and, later, the Assyrian annals that register royal campaigns. There are also chronicles of eclectic content. The agents of change are punishing or rewarding gods, implacable sovereigns or simply change itself. The truthfulness of events and characters from the past, whether mythological, fantastic or real, does not seem to have raised too much suspicion. In this work I analyze the way in which the Sumerian King List and Berossus’s Babyloniaca intertwine fictitious and real events and characters to offer comprehensive views of the past in a game of balance between the mythical and the historical. |
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Comprehensive Views of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Problematic Balance between the Mythical and the Historical |
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Comprehensive Views of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Problematic Balance between the Mythical and the Historical |
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Comprehensive Views of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Problematic Balance between the Mythical and the Historical |
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Comprehensive Views of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Problematic Balance between the Mythical and the Historical |
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Comprehensive Views of the Past in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Problematic Balance between the Mythical and the Historical |
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comprehensive views of the past in ancient mesopotamia: the problematic balance between the mythical and the historical |
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Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA |
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