Melammu Symposia III
The Intellectual Heritage of Assyria and Babylonia in East and West
Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena
Proceedings of the Symposium held in Chicago, October 27-31, 2000
edited by Antonio Panaino & Giovanni Pettinato
Università di Bologna & Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e
l'Oriente (IsIAO), Milano 2002
Contents
- FOREWORD by Antonio Panaino & Giovanni Pettinato v
- Symposium Program viii
- List of Participants xi
- A. PANAINO, New Perspectives for an Intercultural Approach to the Sciences of Antiquity between East and West Some Reflections on the Cultural Meaning of the MELAMMU Project 1
- G. P. BASELLO, Babylonia and Elam: the Evidence of the Calendars 13
- G. BECKMAN, ‘My Sun-God’ Reflections of Mesopotamian Conceptions of Kingship among the Hittites 37
- H. CHARAF & A. CHAAYA, Syriac Cult Places in Wadi Qadisha in Lebanon 45
- S. M. CHIODI, Plato and the Mesopotamian Astronomy 53
- CH. A. FARAONE, From Magic Ritual to Semiotic Game: the Transformation of Neo-Assyrian Love Spells in Classical and Hellenistic Greece 61
- R. N. FRYE, Mapping Assyria 75
- T. GNOLI, ‘Pasgribā’ at Hatra and Edessa 79
- J. HÄMEEN-ANTTILA, Continuity of Pagan Religious Traditions in Tenth-Century Iraq 89
- A. HARRAK, The Assembly of Seleucia on the Tigris according to the Syriac Acts of Mār Mārī 109
- C. JANSSEN, At the Banquet of Cultures: Mesopotamia’s Heritage in Arabic Times 119
- K. KARTTUNEN, The Naked Ascetics of India and Other Eastern Religions in the Greek and Roman Sources of the Late Classical Antiquity 135
- R. KRATZ, From Nabonidus to Cyrus 143
- B. A. LEVINE, On the Role of Aramaic in Transmitting Syro-Mesoptamian Legal Institutions 157
- S. B. NOEGEL, Dreaming and the Ideology of Mantics: Homer and Ancient Near Eastern Oneiromancy 167
- J. OELSNER, Hellenization of the Babylonian Culture? 183
- G. PETTINATO, Ideology and Nomenclature of Power in Sumer and Ebla 197
- A. PIRAS, Preliminary Remarks on MELAMMU Database: the Continuity of Mesopotamian Culture showed by Iranological Evidences 205
- B. PONGRATZ-LEISTEN, ‘Lying King’ and ‘False Prophet’: the Intercultural Transfer of a Rhetorical Device within Ancient Near Eastern Ideologies 215
- S. SEMINARA, The Babylonian Science of the Translation and the Ideological Adjustment of the Sumerian Text to the ‘Target Culture’ 245
- Statuto 257
- Statutes
- Addresses of the Contributors
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Melammu Symposia
- Aro, Sanna / R.M. Whiting, eds. (2000) The Heirs of Assyria (Melammu Symposia 1), Helsinki.
- Whiting, R.M., ed. (2001) Myths and Mythologies (Melammu Symposia 2), Helsinki.
- Panaino, Antonio C.D. / Giovanni Pettinato, eds. (2002) Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena. Proceedings of the Third Annual Symposium of the Assyrian and Babylonian Intellectual Heritage Project Held in Chicago, USA, October 27-31, 2000 (Melammu Symposia 3), Milano.
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