1: Introduction
2: Hittite Religion and its Reception in Anatolia
3: Greek Religion in the LBA and EIA
4: Working with Comparative Data: Historical and Typological
Approaches
5: Anatolian-Greek Religious Interaction in the LBA. Modes of
Contact
6: The West Anatolian Contact Zone: Arzawa and Scapegoat
Rituals
7: Generations of Gods and the South East
8: Becoming Cybele: Phrygia as an Intermediate Culture
9: Comparing pantheons
10: War-Rituals
11: Amphictiones and the Calendar
12: Animal Sacrifice: Understanding Differences
Epilogue
Ian Rutherford is Professor of Classics at the University of
Reading. Educated at Oxford, he has held academic posts in both the
UK and USA and beyond, including as a Visiting Fellow at the
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York from 2013
to 2014 and at ANAMED (Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations)
in Istanbul in 2017. His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry
and religion, cultural contact and comparison between Greece and
other ancient
cultures, and ancient Anatolia.
Rutherford's book is a clever, sober, and most of all, sobering
work that provides a useful introduction to the vexed issue of
Anatolian and Greek religious contacts. It should be read by
everyone, believers and sceptics alike, and especially by those who
want to identify such contacts.
*Journal of Indo-European Studies*
Rutherford's work is an important and interesting addition for
those interested in near eastern religion and its relationship to
Greek religion (and other western Mediterranean religious
history).
*Nickolas P. Roubekas, Religious Studies Review*
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