Chercheurs

Archeologie / BACHVAROVA, MARY R.

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Position

Associate Professor, Classical Studies Program, Willamette University, USA.

Thèmes de recherche

Ph.D. with Honors, University of Chicago, \"From Hittite to Homer: The Role of Anatolians in the Transmission of Epic and Prayer Motifs from the Near East to the Greeks,\" (Committee: Shadi Bartsch (head); Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.; Calvert Watkins (Harvard University); Christopher Faraone)

Prix et récompenses

2012 : Faculty Achievement Award for Professional Development and Service, Willamette University
2010 : Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology, Summer Research Grant, Willamette University
2008 : Center for Ancient Studies and Archaeology Faculty Fellow, Willamette University
2007 : Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching, Professional Development and Service, Willamette University
Spring 2007 : Junior Faculty Research Leave Award, Willamette University
2006, 2007 : Hewlett Presidential Discretionary Fund Grant for Oregon Undergraduate Conference in Classical Studies, Willamette University
Spring 2001 : Tave Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago
1993-1998 : Fellowship, University Unendowed Funds, University of Chicago
1990 : Department Prize for the Study of Classics, Latin Translation, Harvard University

Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

2012 \"From \"kingship in heaven\" to king lists: Syro-Anatolian courts and the history of the world.\" Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 12: 97-118.

2010 \"The manly deeds of Hattusili I: Hittite admonitory history and didactic epic,\" in Epic and History, eds. K. Raaflaub and D. Konstan. Waltham, Mass: Blackwell. 66-85.

2009 \"Suppliant Danaids and Argive Nymphs in Aeschylus,\" in Classical Journal 104.4: 289-310.

2009 \"Hittite and Greek Perspectives on Travelling Poets, Texts and Festivals,\" in Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture: Travel, Locality and Panhellenism, eds. R. Hunter and I. C. Rutherford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 23-45.

2008 \"The Poet\'s Point of View and the Prehistory of the Iliad,\" in Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction Held at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (Sept. 17-19, 2004), eds. B. J. Collins, M. R. Bachvarova and I. C. Rutherford. Woodbridge, Conn.: Oxbow Press. 95-108.

2008 \"Sumerian Gala Priests and Eastern Mediterranean Returning Gods: Tragic Lament in Cross-Cultural Perspective,\" in Lament: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Beyond, ed. A. Suter. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 18-52.

2007 \"Actions and Attitudes: Understanding Greek (and Latin) Verbal Paradigms.\" Classical World 100: 123-33.

2007 \"Oath and Allusion in Alcaeus fr. 129,\" in Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society, eds. A. H. Sommerstein and J. Fletcher, Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press. 179-88, 258-64.

2007 \"Suffixaufnahme and Genitival Adjectives as an Anatolian Areal Feature in Hurrian, Tyrrhenian and Anatolian Languages,\" in Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, Nov. 3-4 2006, eds. K. Jones-Bley, M. E. Huld, A. Della Volpe, and M. Robbins Dexter. Washington, D. C. Institute for the Study of Man. 169-89.

2006 “Divine Justice across the Mediterranean: Hittite Arkuwars and the Trial Scene in Aeschylus\' Eumenides.\" Journal of Near Eastern Religions 6:123-53.

2005 \"The Eastern Mediterranean Epic Tradition from Bilgames and Akka to the Song of Release to the Iliad.\" Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 45: 131-53.

2005 \"Relations Between God and Man in the Hurro-Hittite \'Song of Release\'.\" Journal of the American Oriental Society 125:1-13.

2004 \"Topics in Lydian Verse: Accentuation and Syllabification.\" Journal of Indo-European Studies 32: 227-47.

2001 \"Successful Birth, Unsuccessful Marriage: Using Near Eastern Birth Incantations to Interpret Aeschylus\' Suppliants.\" NIN: Journal of Gender Studies in Antiquity 2: 49-90.

1997 \"The Literary Use of Dialects: Ancient Greek, Indic and Sumerian,\" in CLS 33: Papers from the Panels on Linguistic Ideologies in Contact, Universal Grammar, Parameters and Typology, The Perception of Speech and Other Acoustic Signals. eds. K. Singer, R. Eggert, G. Anderson. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 7-22.

Co-Edited Book

2008 Anatolian Interfaces: Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors: An International Conference on Cross-Cultural Interaction Held at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University (Sept. 17-19, 2004), eds. B. J. Collins, M. R. Bachvarova and I. C. Rutherford. Woodbridge, Conn.: Oxbow Press.
Review

2001. Review of Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece, by J. Bottéro, C. Herrenschmidt, and J.-P. Vernant (trans. T. L. Fagan). Chicago and London, in Written Language and Literacy 4: 223-6.

Forthcoming Book

From Hittite to Homer: The Anatolian Background of Greek Epic, manuscript accepted by Cambridge University Press, anticipated publication date 2013.

Forthcoming Book Chapters and Articles

\"The Transmission of Liver Divination from East to West,\" in Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici 54
\"Migrations in the Anatolian Epic Tradition,\" in the conference proceedings of \"Nostoi: Indigenous Culture, Migration and Integration in the Aegean Islands and Western Anatolia during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages,\" March 18, 2011, Koç University, Istanbul, edited by K. Kopanias, Ç. Maner, and N. Stampolidis (Koç University Press)
Translations with introductory discussions of Hurro-Hittite narrative songs and Hittite birth rituals for Women in the Ancient Near East, edited by M. Chavalas (Blackwell Press)

Article to be Revised and Re-submitted

\"Io and the Gorgon: Managing Ancient Greek Women\'s Experiences of Sex and Birth,\" for the classical journal Arethusa (40 pp. ms)

Submitted Articles and Book Chapters

\"Milesian Tales at a Theban Feast: Hunting, Courting and Long-Distance Elite Interactions in the Linear B Tablets from Thebes,\" in Mycenaeans and Anatolians in the Late Bronze Age: The Ahhijawa Question, ed. A. Teffeteller, submitted to Oxford University Press (43 pp. ms)

\"CTH 767.7: The Birth Ritual of Pittei: Its Occasion and the Activity of the Scribe,\" for the volume arising out of the conference \"Luwian Identities: Language and Religion between Anatolia and the Aegean,\" June 10-11, 2011, at University of Reading, edited by Alice Mouton, Ian C. Rutherford, and Ilya Yakubovich (Brill) (20 pp. ms)

Articles and Book Chapters in Preparation

\"Wisdom from Former Days: The Righteousness of the Hittite King and the Foolishness of Kumarbi, Father of the Gods,\" for the volume arising out of the conference, \"Mapping Ancient Near Eastern Masculinities,\" at University of Pennsylvania, edited by I. Zsolnay.

\"CTH 767.7: The Birth Ritual of Pittei: \'Oral Metonymy\' and Bricolage,\" for Journal of Near Eastern Studies (20 pp. ms)

\"Hurro-Hittite Narrative Song as a Bilingual Oral-Derived Genre,\" for the Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Hittitology in Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 5-9, 2011, edited by M. Kapelus and P. Taracha (Agade Press)