Introduction Adrian Kelly and Christopher Metcalf; Part I. Contexts: 1. 'Let Those Important Primeval Deities Listen': The Social Setting of the Hurro-Hittite Song of Emergence Amir Gilan; 2. Siting the Gods: Narrative, Cult, and Hybrid Communities in the Iron Age Mediterranean Carolina López-Ruiz; 3. Politics, Cult, and Scholarship: Aspects of the Transmission History of Marduk and Ti¿amat's Battle Frances Reynolds; 4. The Scholar and the Poet: Standard Babylonian Gilgameš VI vs. Iliad 5 Mark Weeden; Part II. Influence: 5. Playing with Traditions: Deliberate Allusions to Near Eastern Myth in Hesiod's Story of the Five Human Races André Lardinois; 6. Etana in Greece Bruno Currie; 7. The World of Gods and Men: Animal and Plant Disputation Poems and Fables in Babylonia, Persia, and Greece Yoram Cohen; 8. Tales of Kings and Cup-bearers in History and Myth Christopher Metcalf; 9. There Were Nephilim Ruth Scodel; 10. Mythical Time in Mesopotamia Andrew George; Part III. Difference: 11. Borrowing, Dialogue and Rejection: Intertextual Interfaces in the Late Bronze Age Ian Rutherford; 12. Divine Labour Johannes Haubold; 13. Comparison: Relevance and Significance of Linguistic Features Sylvie Vanséveren; 14. Fate and Authority in Mesopotamian Literature and the Iliad Angus Bowie; 15. Fashioning Pandora: Ancient Near Eastern Creation Scenes and Hesiod Bernardo Ballesteros Petrella; 16. Sexing and Gendering the Succession Myth in Ancient Greece and the Near East Adrian Kelly.