From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic by Mary R. Bachvarova

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Ancient Greek Epic

Mary R. Bachvarova

690 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction history literary challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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...

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