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Out of Anatolia: Hittites, Homer and the Trojan War
October 8 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Hybrid Event
AIA Society: New Haven
Lecturer: Sarah Morris
One hundred years ago, scholars identified proto-Greek personal names and places in Hittite texts of the Late Bronze Age that anticipated those in Homeric epic. Over the past century, scholars have debated linguistic and historical connections between these Anatolian texts of the second millennium BCE and early Greek epic poetry, especially the identification of Hittite Aḫḫiya(wa) with Homeric “Achaeans.” Yet events recorded in Hittite documents resemble more closely interactions in western Anatolia in the first millennium BCE, as narrated by the Greek historian Herodotus, than they illuminate or foreshadow heroic events in epic verse. Meanwhile, early East Greek art, archaeology, and poetry preserve other tales of Anatolian heroes and cities behind the Iliad, and attest to the survival of Bronze Age ritual practices in western Anatolia.
Homer A. and Dorothy B. Thompson Lectureship
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