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Aeolic and Aeolians
  • Origins of an Ancient Greek Language and its Community of Speakers
  • Roger D. Woodard
  • Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024
  • Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age, and that the ancestral Aeolic speech community can be identified with the Mycenaean peoples of Anatolia called the Ahhiyawans in Hittite records. These Bronze-Age Asian Greeks would intermarry with local Luvian peoples of western Anatolia, and the Aeolian language and identity – an identity encoded in myth-emerged from the intermixing of the two societies. Aeolian myths are central to Woodard's ground-breaking investigations presented in this volume. He demonstrates how assemblages of mythic components, what Lévi-Strauss called bricolage, enabled early Aeolians to give intellectual expression to their distinctive Greek identity.  With the collapse of Bronze-Age societies in Mycenaean Greece, some of the early Aeolians of Anatolia would migrate to Europe, introducing their language and myths into Hellas.

  • 11 - Asian Goddesses and Bees

  • from Part III - Anatolian and Aeolian Myth and Cult
  • Roger D. Woodard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • Book:
    Aeolic and Aeolians
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 317-343

  • Summary

    Discussion of the transfer of cult knowledge from Anatolia to European Hellas in both the Bronze Age and Iron Age, with a close examination of Ephesian Artemis and other Asian Mother-goddess figures with consideration of Ur-Aeolian (= Ahhiyawan) and Aeolian involvement in the process.

  • Introduction

  • Roger D. Woodard, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
  • Book:
    Aeolic and Aeolians
    Published online:
    21 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 1-4

  • Summary

    Aeolic and Aeolians explores the origin of an ancient Greek language and the beginnings and evolution of the community of its speakers – the Aeolians. Roger Woodard argues that the starting point for both is situated in Asia Minor during the period of the Late Bronze Age, and that the ancestral Aeolic speech community can be identified with the Mycenaean peoples of Anatolia called the Ahhiyawans in Hittite records. These Bronze-Age Asian Greeks would intermarry with local Luvian peoples of western Anatolia, and the Aeolian language and identity – an identity encoded in myth – emerged from the intermixing of the two societies.

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