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Author Burkert, Walter, 1931-2015

Title Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : eastern contexts of Greek culture / Walter Burkert.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007.
2004.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  880.9 B959B    Check Shelf
Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Description 178 pages ; 22 cm
Note Originally published: 2004.
Contents Alphabetic writing -- Orientalizing features in Homer -- Oriental wisdom literature and cosmogony -- Orpheus and Egypt -- The Advent of the Magi.
Summary 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 emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Homer -- Knowledge -- Middle East.
Greek literature -- Oriental influences.
Magi.
Greece -- Civilization -- Oriental influences.
Middle East -- In literature.
ISBN 9780674023994 paperback
0674023994 paperback
9780674014893 hardback
0674014898 hardback
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