Kinyras: The Divine Lyre (Hellenic Studies Series)

. About the Author 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

. 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

Franklin addresses issues of ethnicity and identity; migration and colonization, especially the Aegean diaspora to Cyprus, Cilicia, and Philistia in the Early Iron Age; cultural interface of Hellenic, Eteocypriot, and Levantine groups on Cyprus; early Greek poetics, epic memory, and myth-making; performance traditions and music archaeology; royal ideology and ritual poetics; and a host of specific philological and historical issues arising from the collation of classical and Near Eastern sources.Kinyras includes a vital background study of divinized balang-harps in Mesopotamia by