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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.

Epic poetry, Greek --- Hittites --- Hittite literature --- History and criticism --- Religion --- Homer. --- Gilgamesh --- Homer --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism --- Hittites - Religion --- Hittite literature - History and criticism --- Homer - Iliad --- History and criticism. --- Religion. --- Gilgamesh. --- Epic of Gilgamesh --- Ghilgameš --- Gilgamesch --- Gilgamesz --- Gilgāmish --- Guilgamesh --- Ishtar and Izdubar --- Ishtar (Assyro-Babylonian epic) --- Izdubar --- Jiljāmish --- Kilkāmish --- Sha naqba imura

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Hittites --- Culture diffusion --- Diffusion culturelle --- Greece --- Turkey --- Anatolia (Turkey) --- Grèce --- Turquie --- Anatolie (Turquie) --- Relations --- Civilization --- Civilisation --- Cultural fusion --- Cultural pluralism --- History --- Grèce --- Hittites - Congresses --- Culture diffusion - Greece - Congresses --- Culture diffusion - Turkey - Congresses --- Greece - Relations - Turkey - Congresses --- Turkey - Relations - Greece - Congresses

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The papers in this collection are the product of the conference ""Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction,"" hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. They cover an impressive range of issues relating to the complex cultural interactions that took place on Anatolian soil over the course of two millennia, in the process highlighting the difficulties inherent in studying societies that are multi-cultural in their make-up and outlook, as well as the role that cultural identity played in shaping those interactions. T

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Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts--performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it--are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters.The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore.

E-books --- Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism - Theory, etc. --- Performing arts - Appreciation - Greece --- Oral interpretation of poetry --- Oral tradition - Greece --- Homer - Criticism, Textual --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Performing arts --- Oral tradition --- Homer --- Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Oral tradition. --- Performanz --- Rezeption. --- Sprechtheater. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Appreciation --- Homer. --- Homerus, --- Criticism, Textual. --- Greece.

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Divine Names are a key component in the communication between humans and gods in Antiquity. Their complexity derives not only from the impressive number of onomastic elements available to describe and target specific divine powers, but also from their capacity to be combined within distinctive configurations of gods. The volume collects 36 essays pertaining to many different contexts - Egypt, Anatolia, Levant, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome - which address the multiple functions and wide scope of divine onomastics. Scrutinized in a diachronic and comparative perspective, divine names shed light on how polytheisms and monotheisms work as complex systems of divine and human agents embedded in an historical framework. Names imply knowledge and play a decisive role in rituals; they move between cities and regions, and can be translated; they interact with images and reflect the intrinsic plurality of divine beings. This vivid exploration of divine names pays attention to the balance between tradition and innovation, flexibility and constraints, to the material and conceptual parameters of onomastic practices, to cross-cultural contexts and local idiosyncrasies, in a word to human strategies for shaping the gods through their names.

HISTORY / Medieval. --- Religions. --- monotheisms. --- onomastics. --- polytheisms.