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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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