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Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond and Routes and Travellers between East and West

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Summary	The 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.
Table of Contents	Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond. 2nd Workshop of the Melammu Project. University of Innsbruck, 13–14 October 2016 Edited by Martin Lang and Sebastian Fink Martin 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 Assyriology Routes and Travellers between East and West Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World. 3rd Workshop of the Melammu Project. University of Barcelona, 22–23 March 2017 Edited by Rocío Da Riva and Sebastian Fink Rocio 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 Indices

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The 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.

Table of Contents

Literary Change in Mesopotamia and Beyond. 2nd Workshop of the Melammu Project. University of Innsbruck, 13–14 October 2016

Edited by Martin Lang and Sebastian Fink

Martin 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 Assyriology

Routes and Travellers between East and West Cultural Exchange in the Ancient World. 3rd Workshop of the Melammu Project. University of Barcelona, 22–23 March 2017

Edited by Rocío Da Riva and Sebastian Fink

Rocio 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

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