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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis (2004)

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis (2004)

Literary Fiction

Walter Burkert

Year: 2004
Authors: Walter Burkert
Print type: BOOK

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"This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Ninevah, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Easter-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C."--BOOK JACKET.