Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: eastern contexts of Greek culture
This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.
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- Full title :Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : eastern contexts of Greek culture / Walter Burkert.
Summary
This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.
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- Publication Date:2007.
- Edition:1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
Notes
Originally published: 2004.
The Physical Object
- Description:178 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780674023994, 0674023994, 9780674014893, 0674014898
- oclc:ocm77796116
- LC Classification:PA3070
- Dewey Decimal:880.9001
Table of Contents
Alphabetic writing -- Orientalizing features in Homer -- Oriental wisdom literature and cosmogony -- Orpheus and Egypt -- The Advent of the Magi.
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