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Eaten by his own dogs (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry


 		Keywords
animals
gods
lovers
Period
1st century CE
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Roman Empire 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Roman poets

Text
The fate of Actaeon in the Greek mythology, who wanted to marry his aunt Semele but was changed into a stag by Artemis and torn apart by his own hunting-dogs, is similar to the one of Ištar’s mortal favourites.

Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 6.58-63:
(Gilgameš to Ištar:) ‘You loved a shepherd, the herdsman, the chief one, who constantly heaped up the embers for you (and) slaughtered ewe-lambs for you daily. [You st]ruck him and turned him into a wolf: his own herd-boys were driving him away, and his dogs were biting his thighs.

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Gilgameš Epic (SBV) 6.58-63
Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.206ff.

Bibliography

West 1997, 455West, 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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