The Melammu Project

The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena

Proceedings of the Third Symposium
of the Melammu Project
Held in Chicago, USA, October 27-31, 2000

Edited by A. Panaino and G. Pettinato
With the collaboration of G.P. Basello and A. Piras

The cover of Melammu Symposia 3: Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena

Information - Table of contents - Program

	Symposium Program
	Friday, October 27

09:30	Opening of the Symposium
10:00-13:00	Papers (Chair: A. Panaino)
	D. Stronach: "The survival of Neo-Assyrian Imagery in the Arts of Achaemenid Iran"
	R. N. Frye: "Mapping Assyria"
	G. Beckman: "'My Sun-God' Reflections of Mesopotamian Conceptions of Kingship among the Hittites"
15:00-17:00	Papers (Chair: E. Kamber)
	R. Kratz: "From Nabonid to Cyrus: a Case Study on an Intercultural Contest of Ideologies"
	B. Pongratz-Leisten: "Lying Kings and False Prophets: 'Lie' and 'Truth' in the History of Ideas in the Ancient Near East"
	C. Leurini: "Habent etiam episcopi diaconos (Augustinus De Haer. 46): Short Remarks on a Manichaean Ecclesiastical Function"
18:30-21:00	Reception at the Mesopotamian Museum, 6301 N. Pulaski, Chicago

09:00-11:00	Papers (Chair: R. Mattila)
	R. Rollinger: "Ideology as Means of Demarcation: Herodotus, Human Violence and the Ancient Near East"
	T. Gnoli: "Hatra and Edessa: the Case of 'Pasgriba' between History and Religion"
	K. Karttunen: "The Naked Ascetics of India and Other Eastern Religions in the Greek and Roman Sources of the Late Antiquity"
11:20-13:30	Papers (Chair: T. Abusch)
	A. Harrak: "The Assembly of Seleucia on the Tigris according to the Acts of Mar Mari"
	I. Gruenwald: "How is the Dual Gender of God Handled in Religions that Developed in the Wake of Mesopotamian and Assyrian models?"
	G. P. Basello: "Babylonia and Elam: the Evidence of the Calendars"
15:30-17:30	Lunch and Boat Ride on Lake Michigan

09:00-11:00	Papers (Chair: M. Civil)
	G. Pettinato: "The Ideology of Power in Sumer and Syria in the Third Millennium B.C."
	C. Faraone: "From Magic Spell to Semiotic Game: the Transformation of Neo-Assyrian Love Spells in Classical and Hellenistic Greece"
	B. Jacobs: "Rückbesinnung auf vergangene Grösse - Anspruch und Wirklichkeit einiger Ideologeme des Antiochos I. von Kommagene"
11:20-13:00	Papers (Chair: W. W. Hallo)
	J. Oelsner: "Hellenization of the Babylonian Culture?"
	J. Hämeen-Anttila: "Continuity of Pagan Religious Traditions in Tenth-Century Iraq"
15:00-17:00	Papers
	S. Noegel: "Dreaming and the Ideology of Mantics: Homer and Ancient Near Eastern Oneiromancy"
	D. R. Frayne: "Gilgamesh and Odysseus"
	C. Marek: "Some Aspects of Greek Entertainment in the Eastern Roman Empire"
17:00-18:30	General Meeting of the Melammu Project (Chair: S. Parpola)
	Election of the New Steering Committee

09:30-12:00	Papers (Chair: G. Gragg)
	B. Levine: "On the Role of Aramaic in Transmitting Mesopotamian Royal Institution"
	K. Nemet-Nejat: "The Changing Face of Mathematics in Ancient Mesopotamia"
	J. Walker: "Syriac Christianity and the Assyrian Past"
12:00-13:30	Papers (Chair: Martha T. Roth)
	W. W. Hallo: "Constellations"
	C. Janssen: "At the Banquet of Cultures: Mesopotamia's Heritage in Arabic Times"
13:30	Lunch hosted by the Oriental Institute and Chicago Assyrian Dictionary
14:30-15:30	Oriental Institute Museum "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur"
19:15-22:45	Dinner at the Assyran Social Club

09:00-13:00	Papers (Chair: Klaus Karttunen)
	E. N. Frye: "Architectural and Funerary Connections of Assyrians in Iran"
	A. M. Saadi: "A Treasure-trove of Syriac Literature: Unearthing, Demystifying and Cataloguing a Wealth of Manuscripts at Lutheran School of Theology of Chicago"
	A. Piras: "Transformations of Hierogamy in Zoroastrian Iran"
	H. Charaf: "Syriac Cult Places in Wadi Qadisha in Lebanan"
	S. Sanders: "Mystics, Dictionaries, and the Early History of Exegesis: Notes on Iron-Age Language Ideologies"
	R. Whiting: "Progress Report on the Melammu Database"
13:00	Conclusion of the Symposium and Greetings