L'eredità del fenomeno regale miceneo oltre la sua caduta. Analisi della titolatura regale micenea nei poemi omerici e nelle epigrafi paleofrigie della Città di Mida

In Mycenaean history, kingship is a phenomenon clearly evident from several complemen- tary direct epigraphic, archaeological, and iconographic sources. Its definition also appears to be supported by Near Eastern evidence, which, from the Hittite palatine correspondence to the im- ported lapis lazuli discovered at Thebes, provides not only a sense of the phenomenon outside the Greek continent, but also a measure of the relationships that the Mycenaean courts maintained with the powerful kingdoms of the Near East. Following the fall of what some define, at least in its external relations, as a real Mycenaean Empire, the royal title, until then attested only by clay ta- blets, disappeared with them, to resurface in the 8th century BC in sporadic literary and epigraphic attestations. Specifically, this paper aims to investigate the presence of Mycenaean royal lexicon in the Iliad, on the one hand, and in Paleo-Phrygian inscriptions, on the other, the only witnesses of such titulary in the 1st millennium BC. Starting from these, we will attempt to understand the modalities and motivations that led to the adoption of a lexicon of Mycenaean origin – inevitably reworked and adapted to the new needs of epic texts and public epigraphs – in order to glimpse the processes of reception, transmission, and adoption.