Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture

By Walter Burkert

Book Overview

Traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Perseolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern- Aegean cultural community.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674014898
• ISBN13: 9780674014893
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"