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Kinyras: The Divine Lyre
John Curtis Franklin
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Description for Kinyras: The Divine Lyre
Paperback. John Curtis Franklin seeks to harmonize Kinyras as a mythological symbol of pre-Greek Cyprus with what is known of ritual music and deified instruments in the Bronze Age Near East, using evidence going back to early Mesopotamia. This paperback edition contains minor corrections, while retaining the maps of the original hardback edition as spreads. Series: Hellenic Studies Series. Num Pages: 834 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 22 x 15. .
Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon's (faithless) ally, Aphrodite's priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings, and much more. Kinyras increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration in 1968 that Kinnaru--the divinized temple-lyre--was venerated at Ugarit, an important Late Bronze Age city just opposite Cyprus on the Syrian coast. John Curtis Franklin seeks to harmonize Kinyras as a mythological symbol of pre-Greek Cyprus with what is known of ritual music and deified instruments in the Bronze Age Near East, using evidence going back to early Mesopotamia. Franklin addresses issues of ethnicity and identity; migration and colonization, especially the Aegean diaspora to Cyprus, Cilicia, and Philistia in the Early Iron Age; cultural interface of Hellenic, Eteocypriot, and Levantine groups on Cyprus; early Greek poetics, epic memory, and myth-making; performance traditions and music archaeology; royal ideology and ritual poetics; and a host of specific philological and historical issues arising from the collation of classical and Near Eastern sources. Kinyras includes a vital background study of divinized balang-harps in Mesopotamia by Wolfgang Heimpel. This paperback edition contains minor corrections, while retaining the foldout maps of the original hardback edition as spreads, alongside illustrations and artwork by Glynnis Fawkes.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Hellenic Studies Series
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
834
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674972322
SKU
V9780674972322
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About John Curtis Franklin
John Curtis Franklin is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Vermont. Wolfgang Heimpel is Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
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