Mary R. Bachvarova (Oregon Willamette University)

Broschiertes Buch

From Hittite to Homer

Beschreibung

This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that the Near Eastern influence on early Greek hexameter poetry primarily came from a single Syro-Anatolian tradition of oral narrative song, which included the Song of Gilgamesh and the Kumarbi Cycle, starting in the eleventh century BCE.

Autor

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 of Hurro-Hittite narrative songs in the recently published Ancient Mediterranean Myths: Primary Sources from Ancient Greece, Rome, and the Near East, edited by C. López-Ruiz (2013).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 690
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1180g
• ISBN-13: 9781108994101
• ISBN-10: 1108994105
• Artikelnr.: 60554193