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Taking no food (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Literary motifs and topoi 11 Language, communication, libraries and education 11.01 Imperial languages 11.01.05 Shared linguistic items and features 11.01.05.04 Literary motifs and topoi	Keywords food weeping
Period Greek Archaic Age Sumerian Ur III Empire	Channel Greek poets Old Testament

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Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 389-390:
After thus he had been telling him, he went into the back of his bedroom and lay there refusing food.

1 Kings 21:4:
And Ahab went into his house … and he lay on his bed and turned his face away, and ate no food.

Homer, Odyssey 4.787-790:
But she, the wise Penelope, lay there in her upper chamber, touching no food, tasting neither meat nor drink, pondering whether her peerless son would escape death, or be slain by the insolent wooers.

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Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta 389-390
Homer, Odyssey 4.787-790
1 Kings 21:4

Bibliography

West 1997, 421

West, Martin L. The East Face of Helicon. West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1997.

Amar Annus

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