Why do you shed tears? (1)

Text
Šurpu 7:
(Ea to Marduk:) ‘My son, what do you not know? What could I add to you? … What I know, you know too.’

Keret, KTU 1 14.i.38-41:
(El asks Keret:) What is it with Keret, that he weeps, the gracious one, El’s lad, that he sheds tears?

Homer, Iliad 1.357-364:
So he (= Achilles) spoke, weeping, and his lady mother heard him, as she sat in the depths of the sea beside the old man, her father. And speedily she came forth from the grey sea like a mist, and sat down before him, as he wept, and she stroked him with her hand, and spoke to him, and called him by name: ‘My child, why do you weep? What sorrow has come upon your heart? Speak out; hide it not in your mind, that we both may know.’ Then with heavy moaning spoke swift-footed Achilles to her: ‘You know. Why then should I tell the tale to you who knows all?’

Sources (list of abbreviations) (source links will open in a new browser window)
Homer, Iliad 1.357-364
Keret, KTU 1 14.i.38-41
Šurpu 7

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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