Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero

Amir Gilan

doi:10.1002/9781444315639.ch4

Epic and History in Hittite Anatolia: In Search of a Local Hero

Amir Gilan^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Epic and History
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	51-65
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9781405193078
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444315639.ch4
State	Published - 17 Dec 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Communicative, relational approach to epic
Epic and history in Hittite Anatolia - in search of a local hero
Hittite or Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) material
Hurrian Storm-god Teššub
Searching for a Hittite hero - "The return of Odysseus"
So-called Siege of UrIu, Old Hittite composition written in Akkadian with Hittite glosses
Song of Release - destruction of Syrian city of Ebla and release of war captives
Songs, chants, and poems in Hittite Anatolia - from rich ritual literature
The King of Battle - narrating Sargon's conquest of Anatolian city of Puru
Watkins, rendering alati wiluIati as "steep Wiluša" - famous epithet for Ilium in the Iliad

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