The papers in this collection are the product of the conference "Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction," hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. They cover an impressive range of issues relating to the complex cultural interactions that took place on Anatolian soil over the course of two millennia, in the process highlighting the difficulties inherent in studying societies that are multi-cultural in their make-up and outlook, as well as the role that cultural identity played in shaping those interactions. Topics include possible sources of tension along the Mycenaean-Anatolian interface; the transmission of mythological and religious elements between cultures; the change across time and space in literary motifs as they are adapted to new milieus and new audiences; the ways in which linguistic data can refine our understanding of the interrelations between the various peoples who lived in Anatolia; and the role that the Anatolian kingdoms of the first millennium played as cultural filters and conduits through which North Syrian or Near Eastern ideas or materials were transmitted to the Greeks.

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• PREFACE
• ABBREVIATIONS
• INTRODUCTION
• 1 - TROY AS A “CONTESTED PERIPHERY”: ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CROSS-CULTURAL AND CROSS-DISCIPLINARY INTERACTIONS CONCERNING BRONZE AGE ANATOLIA
  • POSITION OVERVIEW
  • TROY AND THE TROAD AS A “CONTESTED PERIPHERY”
  • ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNICITY AT TROY
  • TROY AND THE TROJAN WAR AS A “CONTESTED PERIPHERY” IN ACADEMIC AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION
  • SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 2 - PURPLE-DYERS IN LAZPA
  • ṢĀRIPŪTU-MEN IN THE MANAPA-TARHUNTA LETTER
  • ṢĀRIPŪTU-MEN IN THE TEXTS FROM UGARIT
  • PURPLE IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
  • PURPLE-DYE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION THROUGH THE AGES
  • PURPLE IN THE AEGEAN
  • PURPLE IN HATTI
  • BACK TO LAZPA
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 3 - MULTICULTURALISM IN THE MYCENAEAN WORLD
  • THE LINEAR B TOPONYMICS
  • ONOMASTICS
  • THE TAWAGALAWA LETTER AND THE MYCENAEAN EVIDENCE: HITTITES, LUWIANS, MYCENAEANS
  • CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 4 - HITTITE LESBOS?
  • APPENDIX: TEXTS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 5 - THE SEER MOPSOS (MUKSAS) AS A HISTORICAL FIGURE
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 6 - SETTING UP THE GODDESS OF THE NIGHT SEPARATELY
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 7 - THE SONGS OF THE ZINTUḪIS: CHORUS AND RITUAL IN ANATOLIA AND GREECE
  • GREEK AND ANATOLIAN SONG CULTURES
  • HATTIC CHORAL SONG
  • PARALLELS BETWEEN ANATOLIA AND THE AEGEAN
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 8 - HOMER AT THE INTERFACE
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 9 - THE POET’S POINT OF VIEW AND THE PREHISTORY OF THE ILIAD
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 10 - HITTITE ETHNICITY? CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY IN HITTITE LITERATURE
  • REFERENCES
• 11 - WRITING SYSTEMS AND IDENTITY
  • EVOLUTION OF SCRIPTS
  • HITTITE SCRIBAL PRACTICE
  • ORIGINS OF THE SCRIPT
  • WHY DID THE HITTITES WRITE HIEROGLYPHS?
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 12 - LUWIAN MIGRATIONS IN LIGHT OF LINGUISTIC CONTACTS
  • 1. LUWIAN AND HITTITE
  • 2. LUWIAN AND GREEK
  • 3. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 13 - “HERMIT CRABS,” OR NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES: ANATOLIAN AND HELLENIC CONNECTIONS FROM HOMER AND BEFORE TO ANTIOCHUS I OF COMMAGENE AND AFTER
  • THE LETTER KUB 26.91
  • A SYRO-HITTITE CONCEPT AND ITS CONTINUATION: LYCIAN FUNERARY ARCHITECTURE AND HOMERIC FORMULA
  • HIEROGLYPHIC LUWIAN TASA(N)-ZA, LYDIAN TAŚẼN, LYCIAN KUMEZIJẼ ΘΘẼ
  • GREEK ΙΕΣΡΟΘΕΣΙΟΝ (ΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ ΕΜΟΥ) AND (ΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ ΕΝΘΑ ΘΕΣΙΝ)
  • SOME PRECISIONS ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF GREEK ΘΕΟΣ
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 14 - POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN ANATOLIAN, HURRIAN, URARTIAN AND ARMENIAN AS EVIDENCE FOR LANGUAGE CONTACT
  • 1. THE DATA
  • 2. CONTACTS BETWEEN INDO-EUROPEAN AND NON-INDO-EUROPEAN POPULATIONS IN ANATOLIA
  • 3. ARMENIAN
  • 4. CONCLUSIONS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 15 - GREEK MÓLYBDOS AS A LOANWORD FROM LYDIAN
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 16 - Kybele as Kubaba in a Lydo-Phrygian Context
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 17 - KING MIDAS IN SOUTHEASTERN ANATOLIA
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 18 - THE GALA AND THE GALLOS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 19 - PATTERNS OF ELITE INTERACTION: ANIMAL-HEADED VESSELS IN ANATOLIA IN THE EIGHTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES BC
  • 1. BUCKETS AND BEAKERS FROM GORDION AND SAMOS
  • 2. IN SARGON’S PALACE
  • 3. BRONZE AGE PRECEDENTS
  • 4. CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• 20 - “A FEAST OF MUSIC”: THE GRECO-LYDIAN MUSICAL MOVEMENT ON THE ASSYRIAN PERIPHERY
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• INDEX