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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture Walter Burkert
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
Walter Burkert
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.
192 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 1, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674023994 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 141 × 212 × 13 mm · 256 g |
| Language | English |
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