Author: Alfred Joshua Butler
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Babylon of Egypt
Author: Alfred Joshua Butler
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Egypt and Babylon from Sacred and Profane Sources
Author: George Rawlinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Babylon
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Babylon
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia
Author: Archibald Henry Sayce
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752426179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Archibald Henry Sayce
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752426179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Archibald Henry Sayce
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis
Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674023994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. 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. In concise and inviting fashion, Walter Burkert lays out the essential evidence for this ongoing reinterpretation of Greek culture. In particular, he points to the critical role of the development of writing in the ancient Near East, from the achievement of cuneiform in the Bronze Age to the rise of the alphabet after 1000 B.C. From the invention and diffusion of alphabetic writing, a series of cultural encounters between "Oriental" and Greek followed. Burkert details how the Assyrian influences of Phoenician and Anatolian intermediaries, the emerging fascination with Egypt, and the Persian conquests in Ionia make themselves felt in the poetry of Homer and his gods, in the mythic foundations of Greek cults, and in the first steps toward philosophy. A journey through the fluid borderlines of the Near East and Europe, with new and shifting perspectives on the cultural exchanges these produced, this book offers a clear view of the multicultural field upon which the Greek heritage that formed Western civilization first appeared.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674023994
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. 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. In concise and inviting fashion, Walter Burkert lays out the essential evidence for this ongoing reinterpretation of Greek culture. In particular, he points to the critical role of the development of writing in the ancient Near East, from the achievement of cuneiform in the Bronze Age to the rise of the alphabet after 1000 B.C. From the invention and diffusion of alphabetic writing, a series of cultural encounters between "Oriental" and Greek followed. Burkert details how the Assyrian influences of Phoenician and Anatolian intermediaries, the emerging fascination with Egypt, and the Persian conquests in Ionia make themselves felt in the poetry of Homer and his gods, in the mythic foundations of Greek cults, and in the first steps toward philosophy. A journey through the fluid borderlines of the Near East and Europe, with new and shifting perspectives on the cultural exchanges these produced, this book offers a clear view of the multicultural field upon which the Greek heritage that formed Western civilization first appeared.
Canaan, Babylon, and Egypt
Author: David P. McCash
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578955445
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578955445
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics
Author: Jran Friberg
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812701125
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades. In contrast to this Egyptian mathematics is known from only a small number of papyrus texts, and the few books and papers that have been written about Egyptian mathematical papyri have mostly reiterated the same old presentations and interpretations of the texts. In this book, it is shown that the methods developed by the author for the close study of mathematical cuneiform texts can also be successfully applied to all kinds of Egyptian mathematical texts, hieratic, demotic, or Greek-Egyptian. At the same time, comparisons of a large number of individual Egyptian mathematical exercises with Babylonian parallels yield many new insights into the nature of Egyptian mathematics and show that Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics display greater similarities than expected.
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812701125
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Mesopotamian mathematics is known from a great number of cuneiform texts, most of them Old Babylonian, some Late Babylonian or pre-Old-Babylonian, and has been intensively studied during the last couple of decades. In contrast to this Egyptian mathematics is known from only a small number of papyrus texts, and the few books and papers that have been written about Egyptian mathematical papyri have mostly reiterated the same old presentations and interpretations of the texts. In this book, it is shown that the methods developed by the author for the close study of mathematical cuneiform texts can also be successfully applied to all kinds of Egyptian mathematical texts, hieratic, demotic, or Greek-Egyptian. At the same time, comparisons of a large number of individual Egyptian mathematical exercises with Babylonian parallels yield many new insights into the nature of Egyptian mathematics and show that Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics display greater similarities than expected.
Congress Volume Edinburgh 1974
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004275517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004275517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria
Author: Gaston Maspero
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Egyptian Mythology
Author: Rachel Storm
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754806011
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains powerful tales from Egypt and West Asia with an immediately accesible A-Z structure, fully cross referenced throughout. Includes over 150 color pictures of sacred animals, gods, heroes, angels, djinn and holy places, all taken, wherever possible, from original sources.
Publisher: Lorenz Books
ISBN: 9780754806011
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains powerful tales from Egypt and West Asia with an immediately accesible A-Z structure, fully cross referenced throughout. Includes over 150 color pictures of sacred animals, gods, heroes, angels, djinn and holy places, all taken, wherever possible, from original sources.
Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition
Author: Leonard King
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596057483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Ziusudu is here warned that a flood is to be sent 'to destroy the seed of mankind'... The destruction of mankind had been decreed in 'the assembly [of the gods]' and would be carried out by the commands of Anu and Enlil... -from "The Piety of Ziusudu" The interconnected influences of different traditions of ancient mythology on one another consumed the archaeological efforts of the late 19th and early 20th century, though much work in Britain and Europe was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. This fascinating 1918 study-adapted from a series of lectures delivered to the British Academy in 1916-rings with the frustration of its British author, a renowned classical scholar, as he incorporates the then-latest research from American academics into his intriguing analysis of the impact of Babylonian and Egyptian mythology on the foundations of Judaism. Drawing on newly discovered five-thousand-year-old texts, he weaves a narrative of the folklore of human origins unbroken from our earliest collective memories, and his comparison of the creation and deluge stories of a range of ancient Old World civilizations remains compelling today. British classical scholar LEONARD W. KING (1869-1919) was Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at the University of London, King's College. He also wrote Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (1896) and A History of Sumer and Akkad (1910).
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596057483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Ziusudu is here warned that a flood is to be sent 'to destroy the seed of mankind'... The destruction of mankind had been decreed in 'the assembly [of the gods]' and would be carried out by the commands of Anu and Enlil... -from "The Piety of Ziusudu" The interconnected influences of different traditions of ancient mythology on one another consumed the archaeological efforts of the late 19th and early 20th century, though much work in Britain and Europe was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I. This fascinating 1918 study-adapted from a series of lectures delivered to the British Academy in 1916-rings with the frustration of its British author, a renowned classical scholar, as he incorporates the then-latest research from American academics into his intriguing analysis of the impact of Babylonian and Egyptian mythology on the foundations of Judaism. Drawing on newly discovered five-thousand-year-old texts, he weaves a narrative of the folklore of human origins unbroken from our earliest collective memories, and his comparison of the creation and deluge stories of a range of ancient Old World civilizations remains compelling today. British classical scholar LEONARD W. KING (1869-1919) was Assistant Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and professor of Assyrian and Babylonian archaeology at the University of London, King's College. He also wrote Babylonian Magic and Sorcery (1896) and A History of Sumer and Akkad (1910).