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Marta Pallavidini
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Altorientalistik
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KU Leuven
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
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A Crisis and Its Perception: (A)synchronicity in Action
It is common in the scholar community to define specific times in the history of a culture as tim...
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It is common in the scholar community to define specific times in the history of a culture as times of crisis. Yet sometimes our perception of these times of crisis as scholars does not coincide with the perception of the culture who was going through those times. Also, the opposite statement holds true: the textual and/or archaeological documentation may not provide evident signs of what can be defined as a crisis though it was perceived as such by the culture itself.
Starting with these premises, the aim of my talk is to show three case study from the Hittite culture (Anatolia, 17th to 12th Century BCE): the transition between the Old and the Middle Kingdom, the transfer of the Hittite capital from Hattusa to Tarhuntassa (and back), and the transition to the Iron Age with the end of the Hittite civilization.
Furthermore, I will show how not all these three periods - usually described as times of crisis - can indeed be defined as such, so that a specific asynchronicity in the perception of the Hittite and that of the historians will be stressed out.
Project EC-Chronoi, FU Berlin 01.22 -12.22 (A)synchronic (re)actions: crises and their potential in the Hittite history
Call for Papers_MetaphorWorkshop_RAI 65.pdf
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Marta Pallavidini
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Ludovico Portuese
Deadline for submission: 1 March 2019
Political Metaphors in the Hittite International Treaties
London postgraduate conference for the ancient Near East: ancient lives, new stories, 1-2 Decembe...
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London postgraduate conference for the ancient Near East: ancient lives, new stories, 1-2 December 2018
The Conceptualization of Foreign Rulers as Allies or Enemies in the Hittite Diplomatic Texts
The Crossroads III: A Stranger in the House. Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Soci...
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The Crossroads III: A Stranger in the House. Foreigners in Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Societies of the Bronze Age - 10-11-12-13/09/2018, Prague (Czech Republic)
Metaphors as instrument of diplomacy: networks of metaphors in the Hittite diplomatic texts
From the Middle-Hittite Period onward, and in particular from the reign of Šuppiluliuma I until t...
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From the Middle-Hittite Period onward, and in particular from the reign of Šuppiluliuma I until the end of the Hittite Empire, the Hittite kings made large use of several diplomatic instruments to build and define their relations with the other rulers of the Near East.
In particular, diplomacy was based on the issuing of three textual categories: treaties, international decrees and verdicts, and international correspondence.
In all these textual categories, several topics related to the political discourse are expressed by metaphors. In particular: phases of political life, relations between kings, the concepts of alliance and enmity, characteristics of the Hittite king, and finally politically relevant events.
These topics are closely related to one another from what can be called patterns or networks of metaphors.
Metaphor is not here intended traditionally as figure of speech but, according to the so-called Conceptual Metaphor Theory developed by G. Lakoff and M. Johnson (see Metaphors we live by, 1980), as the result of a cognitive process. Metaphor is thus “pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action” (Lakoff – Johnson 1980, 3). In this paper, in particular, I intend to discuss the metaphors employed in the three textual categories of treaties, international decrees and verdicts, and international correspondence in the aforementioned topics in order to answer the following research questions:
- can networks of metaphors be found in a single category and/or in all of them?
- what is the function of these networks for the specific textual category and, more in general, for Hittite diplomacy?
- do these networks show changes depending on the dating of the text or on the language (Hittite vs Akkadian)?
The answer to these questions intend to underline the complexity of the Hittite diplomatic apparatus on the textual and on the conceptual level.
Metafore cognitive nei testi diplomatici e storiografici ittiti
University of Pavia, Cantieri d'autunno, 11-12nd October 2017
Diplomacy in the Hittite Empire. Formalities and Practice
Invited talk at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, 8th March 2017
Die hethitischen Staatsverträge: Bemerkungen zur Terminologie und Entwicklung
Hrozný and Hittite: The First Hundred Years, Prague 12-14 November 2015
Kognitive Ansätze zu antiken Texten: Der Fall der hethitischen Staatsverträge.
ADVANCES IN METAPHOR STUDIES CONFERENCE, GENOA, 20TH-22ND MAY 2016
Metonymy and metaphor: Describing the relation between the Hittite Kings and their vassals in the Hittite State Treaties
La monarchia ittita e i suoi strumenti diplomatici: considerazioni sulla terminologia dei trattati ittiti di epoca imperiale
The treaties of Suppiluliuma II: Traditional Aspects and Specific Features
Diplomatie und Propaganda in der hethitischen Grossreichszeit: formale und praktische Aspekte
Books by Marta Pallavidini
(A)synchrnonic (Re)Actions. Crises and their Perception in Hittite History
Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East
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Marta Pallavidini
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Ludovico Portuese
PHILIPPIKA 141
, 2020
Proceeding of the workshop "Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East", held at the 65th RAI ...
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Proceeding of the workshop "Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East", held at the 65th RAI in Paris, July 12th, 2019.
Contributions by Stephanie Anthonioz, Esther Brownsmith, Joseph Lam, Davide Nadali, Judith Pfitzner, Claudia Posani, Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira, Silvia Salin, Lisa Wilhelmi
Political Metaphors in Hittite Diplomatic and Historiographic Texts
In preparation
Diplomazia e propaganda in epoca imperiale ittita. Forma e prassi
DBH 48, 2016
L'intelligence nel Vicino Oriente nella Tarda Età del Bronzo: uno strumento di diplomazia
Serie "Segreti", Ministero dell'Interno, 2016
Papers by Marta Pallavidini
Parnašše(y)a šuwa(y)ezzi: Ein möglicher Fortschritt bei der Deutung einer noch rätselhaften Formel
Sprachwissenschaftliche und kulturhistorische Reflexionen. Festschrift zu Ehren von Jörg Klinger
, 2026
In jüngster Zeit hat Jörg Klinger die Analyse der zahlreichen Manuskripte, die die hethitischen G...
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In jüngster Zeit hat Jörg Klinger die Analyse der zahlreichen Manuskripte, die die hethitischen Gesetze überliefern, erneut aufgenommen. Dabei hat er die Überlieferungsgeschichte und das Verhältnis zwischen der ersten und der zweiten Serie neu bewertet, neue Fragen zu Inhalt und Aufbau des Textes sowie zur Entstehung der Sammlung aufgeworfen. Er hat damit die Komplexität der hethitischen Gesetzessammlung und deren Tradierung deutlich herausgearbeitet. 4 1 hetbib_abfrage.php?ori=.
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