Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: Hittite Religion and its Reception in Anatolia
3: Greek Religion in the LBA and EIA
4: Working with Comparative Data: Historical and Typological Approaches
5: Anatolian-Greek Religious Interaction in the LBA. Modes of Contact
6: The West Anatolian Contact Zone: Arzawa and Scapegoat Rituals
7: Generations of Gods and the South East
8: Becoming Cybele: Phrygia as an Intermediate Culture
9: Comparing pantheons
10: War-Rituals
11: Amphictiones and the Calendar
12: Animal Sacrifice: Understanding Differences
Epilogue

About the Author

Ian Rutherford is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. Educated at Oxford, he has held academic posts in both the UK and USA and beyond, including as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York from 2013 to 2014 and at ANAMED (Research Centre for Anatolian Civilisations) in Istanbul in 2017. His research focuses on ancient Greek poetry and religion, cultural contact and comparison between Greece and other ancient
cultures, and ancient Anatolia.

Reviews

Rutherford's book is a clever, sober, and most of all, sobering work that provides a useful introduction to the vexed issue of Anatolian and Greek religious contacts. It should be read by everyone, believers and sceptics alike, and especially by those who want to identify such contacts.
*Journal of Indo-European Studies*

Rutherford's work is an important and interesting addition for those interested in near eastern religion and its relationship to Greek religion (and other western Mediterranean religious history).
*Nickolas P. Roubekas, Religious Studies Review*