TY - BOOK ID - 17326121 TI - From Hittite to Homer : the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic PY - 2016 SN - 9780521509794 9781139048736 0521509793 1108749925 1316399052 1316396851 1139048732 1316399591 1316400131 1316398471 1316393615 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Epic poetry, Greek KW - Hittites KW - Hittite literature KW - History and criticism KW - Religion KW - Homer. KW - Gilgamesh KW - Homer KW - Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism KW - Hittites - Religion KW - Hittite literature - History and criticism KW - Homer - Iliad KW - History and criticism. KW - Religion. KW - Gilgamesh. KW - Epic of Gilgamesh KW - Ghilgameš KW - Gilgamesch KW - Gilgamesz KW - Gilgāmish KW - Guilgamesh KW - Ishtar and Izdubar KW - Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian epic) KW - Izdubar KW - Jiljāmish KW - Kilkāmish KW - Sha naqba imura UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17326121 AB - This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the Hittite capital. Key drivers for Near Eastern influence on the developing Homeric tradition were the shared practices of supralocal festivals and venerating divinized ancestors, and a shared interest in creating narratives about a legendary past using a few specific storylines: theogonies, genealogies connecting local polities, long-distance travel, destruction of a famous city because it refuses to release captives, and trying to overcome death when confronted with the loss of a dear companion. Professor Bachvarova concludes by providing a fresh explanation of the origins and significance of the Greco-Anatolian legend of Troy, thereby offering a new solution to the long-debated question of the historicity of the Trojan War. ER -