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Much Ado about Nothing?

Battle Descriptions in Ugaritic Texts

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This is the only article concerning the time span of the whole 2nd millennium BC and, therefore, a very short introduction into the heyday of this city port on the Mediterranean coast is in order. Afterwards, searching for the epigraphic sources with battle descriptions we will arrive at the rather disappointing result that there is nothing of this kind in Ugarit, at least in the narrow sense of the word, i. e. no description of a real battle. There are descriptions of battles that never happened, descriptions of battles to happen in the future and descriptions of battles without description; and to all these categories we will pay appropriate attention.

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Čech, P. (2020). Much Ado about Nothing?. In: Luggin, J., Fink, S. (eds) Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts. Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-27859-5_3

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