Ian Rutherford - Hittite Texts and Greek Religion: Contact, Interaction, and Comparison

I would like to acknowledge support I received in the course of this project from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2008), the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York (201314), the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Istanbul (2017) and the Kte Hamburger Kolleg Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe, Bochum (2018). The University of Reading was generous in granting me leave in the final stages.

Among those who stimulated my interest in this subject early on Id like to mention three in particular: the linguist Calvert Watkins, whose dazzling classes on Anatolian languages at Harvard I had the good fortune to attend in the 1980s and 1990s; the Hittitologist Itamar Singer, whose work was for me a paradigm for creative work in Aegeo-Anatolian religion; and third the historian of religion Jan Bremmer, a fair-minded and learned man, who never failed to support my work. Id also like to thank Mary Bachvarova and Billie-Jean Collins, my collaborators in the Anatolian Interfacesconference at Emory, Atlanta (2004), and Alice Mouton and Ilya Yakubovich with whom I organized Luwian Identitiesat Reading (2011).

Other scholars Id like to thank for help, inspiration, and support include Sanna Aro, Heather Baker, Gary Beckman, Lisa Bendall, Sandra Blakely, Trevor Bryce, Michele Cammarosano, Yoram Cohen, Carlo Corti, Alex Dale, Lorenzo DAlfonso, Stephen Durnford, Chris Faraone, Margalit Finkelberg, Amir Gilan, Alan Greaves, Julia Griffin, David Hawkins, Manfred Hutter, Silvia Hutter-Braunsar, Barbara Kowalzig, Robin Lane-Fox, idem Maner, Christopher Metcalf, Jared Miller, Sam Mirelman, Nico Momigliano, John Morgan, Greg Nagy, Fred Naiden, Slava Oreshko, Robert Parker, Annick Payne, Daniel Schwemer, Aygl Sel, Annette Teffeteller, Matteo Vigo, Mark Weeden, Gernot Wilhelm, and Lynn Zimmermann. Zenobia Homan designed the maps at very short notice.

Anyone doing research on the Hittites in recent years has had the benefit of the superb web resources available on the Hethitologie Portal Mainz, and Id like to thank the team responsible for creating and maintaining that site. I also owe an immense debt to the staff of the Sackler Library in Oxford, where much of this book was written. The production team at Oxford University Press did a heroic job transforming the manuscript into a book. Finally, Id also like to thank my colleagues at Reading for support and forbearance, especially Emma Aston, Peter Kruschwitz (now at Vienna), and Annalisa Marzano.