Hittite Texts and Greek Religion: Contact, Interaction, and Comparison

ISBN-13: 9780199593279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Ian Rutherford

Opis

Our knowledge of ancient Greek religion has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. Using preserved cuneiform texts, this book explores cases of contact or influence between Ancient Greece and the Hittites to further our understanding of the complex history of religious practices.

Recenzje

Rutherford's book is a clever, sober, and most of all, sobering work that provides a useful introduction to the vexed issue of Anatolian and Greek religious contacts. It should be read by everyone, believers and sceptics alike, and especially by those who want to identify such contacts. Journal of Indo-European Studies

O autorze

Ian Rutherford is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. Educated at Oxford, he has held academic posts in both the UK and USA and beyond, including as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York from 2013 to 2014 and at ANAMED (Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations) in Istanbul in 2017. His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry and religion, cultural contact and comparison between Greece and other ancient cultures, and ancient Anatolia.