Kinyras, in Greco-Roman sources, is the central culture-hero of
early Cyprus: legendary king, metallurge, Agamemnon's (faithless)
ally, Aphrodite's priest, father of Myrrha and Adonis, rival of
Apollo, ancestor of the Paphian priest-kings, and much more.
Kinyras increased in depth and complexity with the demonstration in
1968 that Kinnaru-the divinized temple-lyre-was venerated at
Ugarit, an important Late Bronze Age city just opposite Cyprus on
the Syrian coast. John Curtis Franklin seeks to harmonize Kinyras
as a mythological symbol of pre-Greek Cyprus with what is known of
ritual music and deified instruments in the Bronze Age Near East,
using evidence going back to early Mesopotamia. 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
Wolfgang Heimpel. This paperback edition contains minor
corrections, while retaining the foldout maps of the original
hardback edition as spreads, alongside illustrations and artwork by
Glynnis Fawkes.
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