Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis Walter Burkert

Name: Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis By Walter Burkert
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Traverses the ancient world's three great centres 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 Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium BC.

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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert

This book traverses the ancient world's three great centres 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.

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis Reviews

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis is a unique survey of the thought-world of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. There is an insight in almost every sentence, a challenge in every paragraph, and a lifetime of study in every chapter. The author manages this without losing his sense of wonder, and this is the greatest achievement of the book. - John Ray, Times Literary Supplement Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture reflects its origin as a lecture series and reads smoothly, with Burkert's prodigious scholarship made manifest in the 30 pages of endnotes. For those unconvinced by Bernal, this wide-ranging and scholarly demonstration that Greek culture did not emerge in isolation might just be the right book. - John Bennet, Times Higher Education Supplement

About Walter Burkert

Walter Burkert is Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Zurich.

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GOR013822191

ISBN 13

9780674014893

ISBN 10

0674014898

Title

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert

Author

Walter Burkert

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Year published

20041117

Number of pages

192

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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins