Introduction -- Hurro-Hittite narrative song at Hattusa -- Gilgamesh at Hattusa: written texts and oral traditions -- The Hurro-Hittite ritual context of Gilgamesh at Hattusa -- The plot of the Song of release -- The place of the Song of release in its eastern Mediterranean context -- The function and prehistory of the Song of release -- Sargon the Great: from history to myth -- Long-distance interactions: theory, practice, and myth -- Festivals: a milieu for cultural contact -- The context of epic in Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece -- Cyprus as a source of Syro-Anatolian epic in the Early Iron Age -- Cultural contact in Late Bronze Age western Anatolia -- Continuity of memory at Troy and in Anatolia -- The history of the Homeric tradition -- The layers of Anatolian influence in the Iliad.
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