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From Hittite to Homer : the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic
- Title
- From Hittite to Homer : the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic / Mary R. Bachvarova.
- Author
- Bachvarova, Mary R.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Details
- Description
- xxxviii, 649 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm
- Alternative Title
- Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-564) and indexes.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Hurro-Hittite narrative song at Hattusa -- Gilgamesh at Hattusa: written texts and oral traditions -- The Hurro-Hittite ritual context of Gilgamesh at Hattusa -- The plot of the Song of release -- The place of the Song of release in its eastern Mediterranean context -- The function and prehistory of the Song of release -- Sargon the Great: from history to myth -- Long-distance interactions: theory, practice, and myth -- Festivals: a milieu for cultural contact -- The context of epic in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece -- Cyprus as a source of Syro-Anatolian epic in the Early Iron Age -- Cultural contact in Late Bronze Age western Anatolia -- Continuity of memory at Troy and in Anatolia -- The history of the Homeric tradition -- The layers of Anatolian influence in the Iliad.
- Call Number
- JFF 16-737
- ISBN
- 9780521509794 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0521509793 (hardback : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015013725
- OCLC
- 907061123
- Author
- Bachvarova, Mary R., author.
- Title
- From Hittite to Homer : the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic / Mary R. Bachvarova.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-564) and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 16-737