/lit/ - Literature

>>11113929

M. L. West has done good work in this area. He's concerned with myth more than religion though and doesn't restrict himself to Persia, but is more concerned with the whole of the Near East. His books are often expensive and hard to get too which is unfortunate.

>Over the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of the ancient Near East. Martin West's new book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged.