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Christian Zgoll

Scholar at Göttingen working on ancient languages and comparative mythology, including Greek poetry and Hittite texts.

The Aula at Göttingen University, 3 April 2016. Institutional context for Christian Zgoll, not a portrait or identification of his office
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Christian Zgoll is a professor at Göttingen. He researches early Greek poetry, Hittite language and mythology, and methods for comparing stories that take different forms in texts and other media. [1]

In a 2021 study of CTH 344, he proposed a different reading of the phrase identifying AlaluAlaluFirst heavenly ruler in the surviving Kumarbi song; defeated by Anu, he flees to the dark earth.Glossary · Click to read the explanation’s descendant. The discussion helps distinguish the succession of rulers from genealogies inferred from the story. [2]

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  1. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen — Christian Zgoll Research fields and academic career. Return to the text ↑
  2. Christian Zgoll, The Hittite Theogony or Song of Going Forth (2021) pp.208–225: the disputed phrase and genealogy. Return to the text ↑

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  1. Edition 2 · 13 October 2026 · editor:aladmin

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