Mitologia comparada: Um estudo sobre os mitos cosmogônicos em a teogonia e os trabalhos e os dias de Hesíodo e o Enuma Elish Babilônico (séculos XIII – VI a.C.)

Abstract

The present work proposes to present evidence of cultural interactions in the ancient world through the mythical accounts of creations presented mainly in Theogony and in the Works and Days by Hesiod, poems that deal with the creation of the world and the birth of the Greek gods, as well Babylonian creation epic, Enuma Elish. The aim of this study is to contribute to the demystification of the widely accepted and widespread idea that classical Greek civilization was immune to any kind of cultural correspondence with the Near East, which has been seen as “barbarian” from antiquity to the present day. In recent decades, scholars of Greek religion have been trying to change this paradigm with the question of “Greek Religion and the Ancient Near East”. From these studies and from a comparative perspective, we intend to show that Greek society maintained contacts in the most different ways with Eastern Mediterranean societies, contact that becomes visible in Greek Epic Literature.