Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : eastern contexts of Greek culture / Walter Burkert.
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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| Summary: | "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. |
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| Physical Description: | 178 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0674014898 9780674014893 |