Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture

Walter Burkert

178 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 E...

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