Origins : Creation Texts from the Ancient Mediterranean [first edition]

With their time and place the ancient Mediterranean before the final triumph of Christianity and Islam, the editors have concentrated on a central, primal idea, cosmogony, the narrative of cosmic origins, and have gathered an unprecedented range of texts around it. The picture that emerges is one of richness, fecundity at every turning, from the first image of poem on page to the constantly new insights into the possibilities of "origin" - From Preface