This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Myce

"The Greek and Roman myths and legends are an indispensable part of our cultural heritage -- drawn upon by painters adn writers through the centuries, told and

"With admirable erudition, Lopez-Ruiz brings to life intimacies and exchanges between the ancient Greeks and their Northwest Semitic neighbors, portraying the a

Covers gods, myths, and terminology for mythologies, "drawn from Mesopotamia, Syro-Palestine and Anatolia between 2800 and 300 BC."

This monograph examines the religious and mythological concepts of Zeus from prehistoric times until the Early Archaic period. The research was performed as an