Egyptian Maat and Hesiodic Metis.
Metis appears twice in the Hesiodic corpus as an anthropomorphic goddess, who is courted and then ingested by Zeus. In the Theogony this narrative ends with the permanent stabilization of his monarchic rule over gods and men. We argue that the myth of Metis and Zeus most probably derives--directly o...
| Published in: | Mnemosyne Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 177 - 209 |
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| Format: | Literary Criticism |
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2004
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=12647597&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 12647597 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00267074 MNM jtl: Mnemosyne issn: 00267074 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 2004 vid: 57 iid: 2 pid: 639 pub: Brill Academic Publishers artinfo: ui: 12647597 10.1163/156852504773399178 ppf: 177 ppct: 32 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1MB tig: atl: Egyptian Maat and Hesiodic Metis. aug: au: Faraone, Christopher Teeter, Emily affil: Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago Oriental Institute, University of Chicago su: Zeus (Greek deity) Egyptian goddesses Maat (Egyptian deity) Métis Mythology sug: subj: Zeus (Greek deity) Egyptian goddesses Maat (Egyptian deity) Métis Mythology ab: Metis appears twice in the Hesiodic corpus as an anthropomorphic goddess, who is courted and then ingested by Zeus. In the Theogony this narrative ends with the permanent stabilization of his monarchic rule over gods and men. We argue that the myth of Metis and Zeus most probably derives--directly or indirectly--from Egyptian royal ideology, as it is expressed most emphatically in a series of New Kingdom and later (i.e. 1500 BCE-200 CE) texts and relief sculptures that depict the offering to various monarchical male gods of the goddess Maat. Like Hesiodic Mêtis/mêtis, Maat appears in Egyptian texts both as an abstract idea (maat) and as an anthro-pomorphized goddess Maat and several odd details in the Hesiodic narratives can be explained by Egyptian influence, especially the idea that Zeus swallows Metis and that afterwards she gives him moral guidance. Metis and Egyptian Maat are both closely connected to the idea of legitimate monarchic rule, a relationship that is expressed by the insertion of Maat herself into the coronation names of Egyptian kings, much the same as Metis' name appears in two of the traditional epithets attached to Zeus. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Literary Criticism src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Mnemosyne is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Mnemosyne holder: Brill Academic Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2004 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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