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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 31, 2023 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
  \n\nSpeakers \nMary Bachvarova \n\nDescription: \n2022-23 UTM A\nual Clas
 sics Seminar Series Mary Bachvarova Willamette University (Oregon, USA)UT
 MACS Seminar: Mary Bachvarova (Willamette University)'How to Do Comparativ
 e Ancient Mediterranean Literary Studies'Professor Bachvarova’s talk will 
 start at 1:10 pm. Join us in person at UTM in Maanjiwe nendamowinan 3230 o
 r virtually on Zoom.Join Zoom Meetinghttps://utoronto.zoom.us/j/8751833865
 4Meeting ID: 875 1833 8654 Passcode: Please contact Prof. Bendlin for the 
 passcode.The talk will be followed by a seminar-style discussion at 3 pm. 
 Please contact Prof. Bendlin for the dossier. Abstract: Much useful work h
 as been done making direct comparisons between Greek and Mesopotamian lite
 rature, the Epic of Gilgamesh and Epic of Creation in particular, which 
 shows that there was some kind of interaction between the Near East and Gr
 eek-speakers that allowed for the transmission of material available to us
  in scribal works. Much less work has been on the mechanics of transmissio
 n: who, what, where, when, why, how? I, therefore, have chosen to f
 ocus more on finding ways to answer these difficult questions rather than 
 to continue to expand the list of parallels among literary texts. Because 
 there is no evidence supporting a theory of direct contact among Mesopotam
 ian scribes trained to read and copy literary texts and Greek speakers, I
  have zeroed in on Anatolia as a place where formative contact could have 
 occurred that also has fortuitously preserved examples of Late Bronze Age 
 “cousins” of the narrative traditions that clearly impacted the Homeric tr
 adition. Starting with this answer to “where,” I will discuss ways to pro
 vide answers to the other five questions, using as my examples three sets
  of Hittite texts: the Kumarbi cycle, widely acknowledged to have precise
  parallels to Hesiod’s Theogony, the Telipinu myth, which shares motifs 
 with angry disappeared god storylines, such as in the Homeric Hymn to Dem
 eter, and the Song of Release, which I have argued shares the same plot 
 as both Iliad 1 and the overall story of the Trojan War.  \n\nCategories 
 \n Seminars \n\nAudiences \n FacultyGraduate Students
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SUMMARY:UTMACS Seminar: Mary Bachvarova
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