From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108994101ISBN-10:1108994105UPC:9781108994101Book Category:Literary Collections, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 1.38 inchesWeight:2.3832Product ID:SCTCHTXR9B
From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781108994101ISBN-10:1108994105UPC:9781108994101Book Category:Literary Collections, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Classical & Medieval, Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.61 x 6.69 x 1.38 inchesWeight:2.3832Product ID:SCTCHTXR9B
Bachvarova, Mary R.: - Mary R. Bachvarova is Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Willamette University, Oregon. She was trained both in classics and in the languages and cultures of Anatolia and the Near East. She is the co-editor, with B. J. Collins and I. C. Rutherford, of Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbours (2005). She has also written a new translation...
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