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Going to the battlefield (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Erra 04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry 04.01 Myths 04.01.05 Erra 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 battles warriors
Period 7th century BCE Greek Archaic Age	Channel Akkadian poetry Greek poets

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Erra and Išum 1.51-53:
Going to the field is appropriate for young men, it is like a festival. He who sits in town, though he be a prince, does not get his fill of bread: he is vilified in the mouth of his people, his head is (reckoned) slight.

Callinus 1.14-16:
Oft a man flees the carnage and the clattering of javelins; death catches him at home; but such as him the people do not love or miss.

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Erra and Išum 1.51-53
Callinus 1.14-16

Bibliography

West 1997, 506

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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