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The Luwians inhabited Anatolia and Syria some three thousand years ago. The present collective volume addresses the questions of their homeland, material and spiritual culture, and relationship with neighbors. It strives to promote Luwian studies as a new interdisciplinary research field.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Alice Mouton (Ph.D. EPHE, Sorbonne, Paris and Leiden University, 2003) is a CNRS full time researcher in Hittitology since 2005. She teaches Hittite cuneiform writing and language at the Institut Catholique de Paris. She wrote two monographs; the first one on Hittite dream reports (Brill, 2007), the second one on South Anatolian birth rituals (De Boccard, 2008). She also edited a collective volume on nightmares in antiquity (De Boccard, 2010).
Ian Rutherford (DPhil Oxford 1986) is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading. In 2013-4 he is a visiting research scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York. His main research interests are in the literature and religion of ancient Greece, Anatolia and Egypt. He was a joint editor of
Anatolian Interfaces. Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbours (Oxbow 2008). His most recent monograph is
State Pilgrims and Sacred Observers. Study of Theoriai and Theoroi (Cambridge, 2013).
Ilya Yakubovich (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2008) currently holds research positions at the Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an author of the monograph
Sociolinguistics of the Luwian Language (Brill, 2010).
