Conceptualizing past, present and future : proceedings of the ninth symposium of the Melammu Project held in Helsinki/Tartu, May 18-24, 2015 / edited by Sebastian Fink and Robert Rollinger.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Fink, Sebastian, editor.

Rollinger, Robert, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project (9th : 2015 : Helsinki, Finland & Tartu, Estonia)

Series:

Melammu symposia ; 9.

Melammu symposia ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization.

Middle East--Civilization--Congresses.

Middle East.

Historiography--Congresses.

Historiography.

Civilization, Ancient--Congresses.

Civilization, Ancient.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 659 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Münster : Ugarit-Verlag, 2018.

Summary:

This book contains the proceedings of the 9th Melammu Symposium which took place in Helsinki and Tartu from May 18-24, 2015. The meeting was part of Robert Rollinger?s ?Finland Distinguished Professorship?, a position he held from 2010-2015 at the Department of World Cultures, University of Helsinki where he was Research Director of the project ?Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East?. One of the major tasks of this position was to revitalize the Melammu Project, thus encouraging international, transdisciplinary research in studies of the Ancient World. The 9th Melammu Symposium was a kind of final event of the ?Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East? project which was conceptualized, planned, and organized by the two editors of this volume together with an international committee of renowned scholars who were in charge of the different thematic sessions of the meeting.

Contents:

Welcome address to the 9th Melammu Symposium, Helsinki, May 18th 2015 / Robert Rollinger

Introduction / Sebastian Fink, Robert Rollinger. Conceptualizing the Past: Narratives. Introduction / John Marincola

How Many Miles to Babylon? The Role of a Great Eastern City in Herodotus' Interpretation of History / Carolyn Dewald

Emotions, Perceptions, Visual Images: Conceptualizing the Past in Xenophon's Hellenica / Emily Baragwanath

Towards a Typology of Quoted Speech (and Text) in Hittite Historiographic Narrative / Jared L. Miller

Concluding Remarks / Elena Devecchi. Structuring the Past: Chronology, Genealogy, Ancestors. Neo-Assyrian Eponym Lists and Eponym Chronicles: Contents, stylistic variants and their historical-ideological background / Shigeo Yamada

Assyrian chronicles an their meaning within the first millennium BC conceptualization of history / Simonetta Ponchia. Past as an Argument: Past and Present in Dialogue. Past as an argument: the past and present in a dialogue: an introduction / Kai Ruffing

The "heavy" name Adadnarari: History and politics in Assyria / Hannes D. Galter

Summer and Stereotype: Re-forging a "Sumerian" kingship in the Late Old Babylonian Period / Seth Richardson

Camillus, Concordia and the libri lintei: The (Re-)Construction of the Roman Past in the Late Republic and Early Principate / Manuel Pohl

The Past in the Present and the Limits of History: Two Greek Cases / John Dillery

Response / Marc Van De Mieroop. The Problem of Genres. Introduction / Martti Nissinen

Ancient Writers on Generic Distinctions in Classical Historiography / John Marincola

Achaemenid Sources and the Problem of Genre / Jason M. Silverman

Genre as Gateway to Ancient Prophecy / Martti Nissinen

The Problem of Genres: Response / Kurt A. Raaflaub. Author and Audience: The Texts and Their 'Sitz im Leben'. Author and audience: The texts and their 'Sitz im Leben' / Mischa Meier and Rocío Da Riva

Who Were the Authors of King Lists in Ancient Mesopotamia? / Nicole Brisch

Manuscript and archive: who wrote and read Babylonian chronicles? / Caroline Waerzeggers

What can we expect from the historiographical texts? Historians, audiences, and the (original) capacity of historiography in the 5th century / Oliver Schelske. Presocratics and Ancient Near Eastern Cosmology. The question of the Origin: Cosmogony: Introduction / Alberto Bernabé

Homer's Origin of All Things and Babylonian Cosmogony: Revisting Burkert's Thesis / Ignacio Márquez Rowe

What is the point of the Babylonian Creation Myth? / Marc Van De Mieroop

Cosmogonic Monism: Between India and Greece: Introduction / Julia M. Mendoza

A Mesopotamian Path to Abstraction? On Sumerian "ontologies" - Introduction / Gebhard J. Selz

Response / Sebastian Fink. General Session. Introduction / Mait Kõiv, Irene Madreiter, Urmas Nõmmik

The Composition and structure of the Neo-Assyrian Empire: Ethnicity, Language and Identities / Frederick Mario Fales-Udine

Liberalizing Persia: The Shadow of a Ggreek Dream in Herodotus / Rosaria Vignolo Munson

Knocking on Heaven's Door: Some Thoughts on the Alleged Reception and the Transformation of the Scene in the Forest of the Gemstones in Gilgameš-Epic / Martin Lang

Asceticism in Ancient Mesopotamia and Syria: A Study of Autism in Antiquity / Amar Annus

Response to the general section / Mait Kõiv, Irene Madreiter, Urmas Nõmmik. The Young Researchers Workshop. Some Remarks about the Beginnings of Marduk / Andreas Johandi

Gyges, Croesus and Beyond Writing and Re-Writing Lydian History throughout the Centuries / Maximilian Räthel

Conceptualizing the early history of the world: Plato and the flood / Ennio Biondi

Conceptualizing Past, Present and Future in Ancient Near East and Greece: Response on Young Researchers Workshop / Peeter Espak, Vladimir Sazonov. Keynote. The hero and the villain: famous dynasties in ancient Near Eastern and Greek narrative traditions / Mait Kõiv.

Notes:

"The 9th Melammu Symposium was a kind of final event of the 'Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East' project which was conceptualized, planned, and organized by the two editors of this volume ..."--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783868352993

3868352996

OCLC:

1066117455

Publisher Number:

99984141934