Mary R Bachvarova
Biographic Data
| ID | 5627149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary R Bachvarova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary R |
| FAMILY NAME | Bachvarova |
| SIGNATURE | BACHVAROVA M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Willamette University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4197-363X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of Gods and Men
Homer in Performance
The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by divers…
Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
The destroyed city in ancient “world history”
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Mourning a city “empty of men”
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From Hittite to Homer
This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the Hittite capital. Key drivers for Near Eastern influence on the developing Homeric tradition were the shared practices of supralocal festivals and venerating divinized ancestors, and a shared intere…
From “Kingship in Heaven” to King Lists
I examine the literary and conceptual background of a Hurro-Hittite ritual calling on divinized royal ancestors ( d šarrena ), characters from Hurro-Hittite song, members of the Sargonic dynasty, a variety of kings from far-off lands, and the “lord of Hatti” (KUB 27.38). I show that the ritual provides a unique glimpse of the complex Near Eastern tradition telling the history of the world from its beginning. The ritual also helps us to understand…
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic …
Suppliant Danaids and Argive Nymphs in Aeschylus
Actions and Attitudes
Recent linguistic research into how languages express situation-types, speaker's point of view, and transitivity affects how we should understand and teach the aspectual distinctions of Greek. I present here some ways in which to teach about the distinctions between the imperfect, aorist, and perfect; the thematic second aorist; and the interplay between voice and aspect, the latter including some comparanda from Spanish, a language many of our s…
Divine Justice across the Mediterranean
A survey of Bronze Age Akkadian prayers and Hittite arkuwars, and Iron Age Anatolian, Greek and Latin curses shows a wide-spread conflation of prayer and forensic speech. The evidence is sufficiently abundant to allow us to trace an evolution in the conventions of prayer which keeps pace with changes in judicial procedure. Furthermore, the Hittite prayers in particular, with their detailed descriptions of the imagined court scenario, provide cont…
From “Kingship in Heaven” to King Lists
I examine the literary and conceptual background of a Hurro-Hittite ritual calling on divinized royal ancestors ( d šarrena ), characters from Hurro-Hittite song, members of the Sargonic dynasty, a variety of kings from far-off lands, and the “lord of Hatti” (KUB 27.38). I show that the ritual provides a unique glimpse of the complex Near Eastern tradition telling the history of the world from its beginning. The ritual also helps us to understand…
Divine Justice across the Mediterranean
A survey of Bronze Age Akkadian prayers and Hittite arkuwars, and Iron Age Anatolian, Greek and Latin curses shows a wide-spread conflation of prayer and forensic speech. The evidence is sufficiently abundant to allow us to trace an evolution in the conventions of prayer which keeps pace with changes in judicial procedure. Furthermore, the Hittite prayers in particular, with their detailed descriptions of the imagined court scenario, provide cont…
Actions and Attitudes
Recent linguistic research into how languages express situation-types, speaker's point of view, and transitivity affects how we should understand and teach the aspectual distinctions of Greek. I present here some ways in which to teach about the distinctions between the imperfect, aorist, and perfect; the thematic second aorist; and the interplay between voice and aspect, the latter including some comparanda from Spanish, a language many of our s…
Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture
Although recent scholarship has focused on the city-state as the context for the production of Greek poetry, for poets and performers travel was more the norm than the exception. This book traces this central aspect of ancient culture from its roots in the near Eastern societies which preceded the Greeks, through the way in which early semi-mythical figures such as Orpheus were imagined, the poets who travelled to the brilliant courts of archaic …
Suppliant Danaids and Argive Nymphs in Aeschylus
From “Kingship in Heaven” to King Lists
I examine the literary and conceptual background of a Hurro-Hittite ritual calling on divinized royal ancestors ( d šarrena ), characters from Hurro-Hittite song, members of the Sargonic dynasty, a variety of kings from far-off lands, and the “lord of Hatti” (KUB 27.38). I show that the ritual provides a unique glimpse of the complex Near Eastern tradition telling the history of the world from its beginning. The ritual also helps us to understand…
The Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
A body of theory has developed about the role and function of memory in creating and maintaining cultural identity. Yet there has been no consideration of the rich Mediterranean and Near Eastern traditions of laments for fallen cities in commemorating or resolving communal trauma. This volume offers new insights into the trope of the fallen city in folk-song and a variety of literary genres. These commemorations reveal memories modified by divers…
Fall of Cities in the Mediterranean
The destroyed city in ancient “world history”
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Mourning a city “empty of men”
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
From Hittite to Homer
This book provides a groundbreaking reassessment of the prehistory of Homeric epic. It argues that in the Early Iron Age bilingual poets transmitted to the Greeks a set of narrative traditions closely related to the one found at Bronze-Age Hattusa, the Hittite capital. Key drivers for Near Eastern influence on the developing Homeric tradition were the shared practices of supralocal festivals and venerating divinized ancestors, and a shared intere…
Homer in Performance
Of Gods and Men
Art (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Ancient Near East History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · History and criticism (4 works)