Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture |
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Author:
| Burkert, Walter |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-02399-4 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2007 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece 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.
This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis--to situate classical Greece 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.