BABYLON, MEMPHIS, PERSEPOLIS by Walter Burkert ( 9780674023994 )

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Title:

BABYLON, MEMPHIS, PERSEPOLIS
EASTERN CONTEXTS OF GREEK CULTURE

By:

Walter Burkert

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Paperback

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0674023994

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9780674023994

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 April, 2007

Pages:

192

Description:

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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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.

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