Da Riva Rocío, Lang Martin, Fink Sebastian (Eds.). Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond and Routes and Travellers Between East and West

Zaphon, 2019. — 293 p. — (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 2).Proceedings of the 2nd and 3rd Melammu WorkshopsThe present volume combines the contributions of the 2nd and 3rd Melammu Workshops. – The 2nd Workshop focusses on the development of literature and literary texts: Why are there and how can we explain literary changes in the tradition of the sub-corpus we are working on? – The Melammu Project is dedicated to study the continuity, transformation and expansion of Mesopotamian culture by means of comparative analyses of the documentary and iconographic materials and the identification of parallels and mutual influences, in particular with the Classical world. In order to study how these parallels came into being, the 3rd Melammu Workshop focusses on the individuals who transmitted this knowledge. Land and sea-routes linking the East with the West were conduits for people and goods and fostered the spread of ideas and technologies in both directions. A study of the itineraries and the conditions of travel is crucial to an understanding of the ways of cultural exchange.Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond. 2nd Workshop of the Melammu Project. University of Innsbruck, 13–14 October 2016Martin Lang - About a History of Ancient Near Eastern Literature. An Introduction to the Melammu Workshop “Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond, 13th–14th of October, 2016”
Peeter Espak - The Transformation of the Sumerian Temple Hymns
Simonetta Ponchia - Looking for Threads of Transmission and Change in II Millennium Heroic Narrative
Takayoshi M. Oshima - Legends of Sargon. History to His Story: Forming the Warrior King Archetype
Vladimir Sazonov - Some Notes on the Evolution of the Hittite Royal Annals
Vladimir Emelianov - The Evolution of the Festival of Dumuzi in the Light of Russian AssyriologyRoutes and Travellers between East and West Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World. 3rd Workshop of the Melammu Project. University of Barcelona, 22–23 March 2017Rocio Da Riva / Sebastian Fink - Introduction
Paola Corò - Greek as Travellers in Near Eastern Sources
Sebastian Fink / Kerstin Droß-Krüpe - Assyrians and Babylonians in Classical Sources
Julien Monerie - Invading Mesopotamia, from Alexander the Great to Antiochus VII
Aurélie Paci - Travelers in Upper Mesopotamia during the Middle and Early Neo-Assyrian Periods. Itineraries and Objectives, from East to West
Jaume Pòrtulas - The Sage’s Lehrjahre
Ian Rutherford - Religious Networks and Cultural Exchange. Some Cases from the Eastern Mediterranean and Aegean in the 3rd–1st Millennia BC
Christoph Schäfer / Pascal Warnking - Through the Middle Sea. An Overview of the Main Mediterranean Sea-Routes in Antiquity
Christopher J. Tuplin - Greek Mercenaries in Mesopotamia. The Visit of the Ten Thousand