Ancient Near East Seminar series 2010

Ancient Near East Seminar Series on LITERATURES OF THE
ANCIENT NEAR EAST


Autumn term seminars take place in Room G51 (College Buildings, Russell Square) at 6 p.m. on the following Mondays

25 October
Yoram Cohen (Tel Aviv): “Where is Bazi? Where is Zizi?” The Ballad of
Early Rulers and the Mari Rulers in the Sumerian King List

15 November
Mauro Giorgieri (Pavia): The Songs and the Scribes: the Role and
Significance of Hurrian Literature in the Cultures of the Ancient Near
East

29 November
Robert Hawley (CNRS, Paris): The Earliest Known Alphabetic Literature:
Structure and Content of the Ugaritic Literary and Scholarly Tradition

13 December
Ian Rutherford (Reading) Near Eastern Literature and Greece: Contact
or Coincidence?