Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture

by Walter Burkert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023994
• ISBN13: 9780674023994
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.7" x 8.3"