Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis
Subtitle: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: November 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780674014893
Subjects: Cultural studies; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Social Science; In literature; Greece; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Oriental influences; Sociology; Ancient Greece; Ancient and Classical; History / Ancient / Greece; Civilization; Anthropology - Cultural; Greek literature; Homer; Magi; Middle East
Description: "This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Ninevah, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Easter-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C."--BOOK JACKET.