Hittite Texts and Greek Religion: Contact, Interaction and Comparison
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 88755
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780199593279
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 385-page monograph, the culmination of several years' work, aims to reassess the complex relationship between ancient Greek religion and the religions of Ancient Anatolia (Turkey) of the Late Bronze Age, the first in depth treatment of this subject. A major source is cuneiform Hittite texts, and it thus required skills not normally used by Classicists. It looks at a range of explanatory models (e.g. borrowing, convergent development, common origin), and examines many aspects of religion, including festivals, sacrifice, purification rituals and the personalities of gods. It also takes account of evidence from Anatolia in the 1st millennium BC.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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