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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture

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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture - Burkert, Walter
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At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers 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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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture 2007, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674023994

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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture 2004, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674014893

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