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He falls and does not know it (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




 		Keywords
sins
traps
Period
5th century BCE
Greek Classical Age 		Channel
Akkadian poetry
Greek poets

Text
Great Hymn to Šamaš 91-94:
Your weapon will strike at him, and there will be none to save him. [His] father will not stand for his defense, And at the judge’s command his brothers will not plead. He is caught in a bronze snare and does not know it.

Aeschylus, Eumenides 377:
And as he falls he does not know it, from witless blight: so dark a cloud of pollution drifts about the man.

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Aeschylus, Eumenides 377
Great Hymn to Šamaš 91-94

Bibliography

West 1997, 578West, 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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