From Hittite to Homer : the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic

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From Hittite to Homer : the Anatolian background of ancient Greek epic

Mary R. Bachvarova

Cambridge University Press, 2016

  • : hardback

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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.

目次

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Hurro-Hittite song at Hattusa
  • 3. Gilgamesh at Hattusa: written texts and oral traditions
  • 4. The Hurro-Hittite ritual context of Gilgamesh at Hattusa
  • 5. The plot of the Song of Release
  • 6. The place of the Song of Release in its Eastern Mediterranean context
  • 7. The function and prehistory of the Song of Release
  • 8. Sargon the Great: from history to myth
  • 9. Long-distance interactions: theory, practice, and myth
  • 10. Festivals: a milieu for cultural contact
  • 11. The context of epic in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece
  • 12. Cyprus as a source of Syro-Anatolian epic in the Early Iron Age
  • 13. Cultural contact in Late Bronze Age Western Anatolia
  • 14. Continuity of memory at Troy and in Anatolia
  • 15. The history of the Homeric tradition
  • 16. The layers of Anatolian influence in the Iliad
  • Appendix. Contraction and the dactylic hexameter.

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