Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean world : : a periplos / / edited by Baruch Halpern, Kenneth S. Sacks, Tyler Edward Kelley.
Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers’ Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and pol...
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| Superior document: | Culture and History of the Ancient Near East, Volume 86 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;
Volume 86. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (325 pages) :; illustrations, tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Baruch Halpern and Kenneth S. Sacks
- Zeus and Prometheus: Greek Adaptations of Ancient Near Eastern Myths / Kurt A. Raaflaub
- The Theogony and the Enuma Elish: City-State Creation Myths / Stephen Scully
- Achaemenid Propaganda and Oral Traditions: A Reassessment of Herodotus’ Early Persian Logoi / Jonathan David
- Evidence of Peace and War in Persian Period Yehud / John W. Betlyon
- Alphabetic Writing in the Mediterranean World: Transmission and Approriation / André Lemaire
- The Name of the Prophet ḥăbaqqûq / David S. Vanderhooft
- ἀμόργη/Amurca: A Semitic Loanword? / Eric Lee Welch
- Twin Peaks: From Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles / Assaf Yasur-Landau
- A Cache of Terracotta Votives from Mendes: Elements of Popular Religion in the Axial Age / Susan Redford
- The Origin and Termination of the Foreign Colony-Garrison at Elephantine / Donald Redford
- When Chimaeras were Chimaeras / Baruch Halpern
- Medicine and Mathematics in Fifth-century Greece and the Question of Near Eastern Influence / Markus Asper
- Who Markets Ideas? Elite and Non-elite Transmission of Culture and Technology / Kenneth S. Sacks
- Bibliography
- Ancient Sources Index
- Modern Authors Index.