Een Arabische Orestes
In: Lampas, Jg. 53 (2020-10-01), Heft 3, S. 298-318
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Summary In this paper I point out remarkable similarities between the Orestes myth and the Arabic story of al-Zir. In addition to the parallels adduced by the Egyptian critic Louis ‘Awad (1968) and in my earlier study ‘Blood on the Wedding Bed’ (2017), I argue here that the killing of a she-camel which ignited the Arabic Basus War is a parallel to Agamemnon’s killing of a sacred deer on the eve of the Trojan War. I propose five criteria to distinguish between weak and strong parallels, and argue that there are not only similarities between single episodes from the Orestes myth and the story of al-Zir, but that the main plot line of both stories is also conspicuously similar.
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Een Arabische Orestes
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Weststeijn, Johan ; (FGw), ARTES |
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Zeitschrift: | Lampas, Jg. 53 (2020-10-01), Heft 3, S. 298-318 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2020 |
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ISSN: | 0165-8204 (print) |
DOI: | 10.5117/lam2020.3.002.west |
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