Talk:Antu (goddess)

Burkert 2005?
What is Burkert 2005? I found a "W. Burkert 2005, Divination: Mantik in Griechenland", maybe that? Asdjk48 (talk) 03:23, 18 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Do you mean this?. If so, the bit Burkert wrote was near the beginning, so the page number wouldn't be 300. I checked his book Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical (written in 1985, but it's had multiple revisions I think) but page 300 just talks about Orphism and Pythagoreanism and stuff. Babylon, Memphis, and Persepolis doesn't even have 300 pages. This bibliography of Burkert's works says he didn't write any books in 2005, but he did write a section called "Near Eastern Connections" (pages 291-301) in the book A Companion to Ancient Epic edited by a certain John Miles Foley. As the citation "Burkert 2005" is for Dione being equivalent to Antu, I would assume that this is where it came from. Here is the link to it: https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470996614.ch21 Dave12121212 (talk) 00:37, 7 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Here it is on google books. (Unfortunately, page 300 is not shown.) Dave12121212 (talk) 02:29, 7 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Copied from Anu: "According to Walter Burkert, an expert on ancient Greek religion, direct parallels also exist between Anu and the Greek god Zeus. In particular, the scene from Tablet VI of the Epic of Gilgamesh in which Ishtar comes before Anu after being rejected by Gilgamesh and complains to her mother Antu, but is mildly rebuked by Anu, is directly paralleled by a scene from Book V of the Iliad. In this scene, Aphrodite, the later Greek development of Ishtar, is wounded by the Greek hero Diomedes while trying to save her son Aeneas. She flees to Mount Olympus, where she cries to her mother Dione, is mocked by her sister Athena, and is mildly rebuked by her father Zeus. Not only is the narrative parallel significant, but so is the fact that Dione's name is a feminization of Zeus's own, just as Antu is a feminine form of Anu. Dione does not appear throughout the rest of the Iliad, in which Zeus's consort is instead the goddess Hera. Burkert therefore concludes that Dione is clearly a calque of Antu." Dave12121212 (talk) 04:52, 7 November 2021 (UTC)