A junior fellow in the Excellence Cluster TOPOI since 2008, Andreas Gräff is writing his dissertation on the cultural identity of Greeks in Mesopotamia and neighboring regions. This project will depict the interaction between the two cultural spaces and examine the perception of the cultural space of the ancient Near East as presented in Greek literature. Particular emphasis is placed on the question of the extent to which this interaction is reflected locally in surviving cuneiform or Greek and Roman sources.