Introduction Part 1: History, Archaeology and the Mycenaean-Anatolian Interface Troy as a "Contested Periphery": Archaeological Perspectives on Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Interactions Concerning Bronze Age Anatolia ( Eric Cline ) Purple-Dyers in Lazpa ( Itamar Singer ) Multiculturalism in the Mycenaean World ( Stavroula Nikoloudis ) Hittite Lesbos? ( Hugh Mason ) Part 2: Sacred Interactions The Seer Mopsos as a Historical Figure ( Norbert Oettinger ) Setting up the Goddess of the Night Separately ( Jared Miller ) The Songs of the Zintuhis: Chorus and Ritual in Anatolia and Greece ( Ian Rutherford ) Part 3: Identity and Literary Traditions Homer at the Interface ( Trevor Bryce ) The Poet's Point of View and the Prehistory of the Iliad ( Mary Bachvarova ) Hittite Ethnicity? Constructions of Identity in Hittite Literature ( Amir Gilan ) Part 4: Identity and Language Change Writing Systems and Identity ( Annick Payne ) Luwian Migration in Light of Linguistic Contacts ( Ilya Yakubovitch ) "Hermit Crabs," or New Wine in Old Bottles: Anatolian-Hellenic Connections from Homer and Before to Antiochus I of Commagene and After ( Calvert Watkins ) Possessive Constructions in Anatolian, Hurrian and Urartean as Evidence for Language Contact ( Silvia Luraghi ) Greek mólybdos as a Loanword from Lydian ( H Craig Melchert ) Part 5: Anatolia as Intermediary: The First Millennium Kybele as Kubaba in a Lydo-Phrygian Context ( Mark Munn ) King Midas in Southeastern Anatolia ( Maya Vassileva ) The GALA and the Gallos ( Patrick Taylor ) Patterns of Elite Interaction: Animal-Headed Vessels in Anatolia in the Eighth and Seventh Centuries BC ( Susanne Ebbinghaus ) "A Feast of Music": The Greco-Lydian Musical Movement on the Assyrian Periphery ( John Franklin ) General Index.