Author: Berosus (the Chaldean.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Babylonia
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Babyloniaca of Berossus
Author: Berosus (the Chaldean.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Babylonia
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Between Greece and Babylonia
Author: Kathryn StevensPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419550
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Focusing on Greece and Babylonia, this book provides a new, cross-cultural approach to the intellectual history of the Hellenistic world.
The Babyloniaca of Berossus
Author: Berosus (the Chaldean.)Publisher:
ISBN: 9788900300307
Category : Babylonia
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus
Author: Russell GmirkinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0567025926
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Berossus and Genesis, Manetho and Exodus argues that the Pentateuch was written in 273-272 BCE under the patronage of Ptolemy II Philadelphus by the Septuagint scholars drawing on Hellenistic historical sources from the Great Library of Alexandria. >
Clio's Other Sons
Author: John DilleryPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472052276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
A discussion of the first written histories of Babylon and Egypt
Interactions between Animals and Humans in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Author: Thorsten FögenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110545624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The seventeen contributions to this volume, written by leading experts, show that animals and humans in Graeco-Roman antiquity are interconnected on a variety of different levels and that their encounters and interactions often result from their belonging to the same structures, ‘networks’ and communities or at least from finding themselves together in a certain setting, context or environment – wittingly or unwittingly. Papers explore the concrete categories of interaction between animals and humans that can be identified, in what contexts they occur, and what types of evidence can be productively used to examine the concept of interactions. Articles in this volume take into account literary, visual, and other types of evidence. A comprehensive research bibliography is also provided.
Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology
Author: Adrian KellyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108570240
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating for the first time a truly interdisciplinary synthesis. Old cases are re-examined, new examples discussed, and the whole range of scholarly opinions, past and present, are analysed, critiqued, and contextualised. While direct textual comparisons still have something to show us, the methodologies advanced here turn their attention to deeper structures and wider dynamics of interaction and influence that respect the cultural autonomy and integrity of all the ancient participants.
Hellenistic Astronomy
Author: Alan C. BowenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004400567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
Ritual, Performance, and Politics in the Ancient Near East
Author: Lauren RistvetPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107065216
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In this book, Lauren Ristvet rethinks the narratives of state formation by investigating the interconnections between ritual, performance, and politics in the ancient Near East. She draws on a wide range of archaeological, iconographic, and cuneiform sources to show how ritual performance was not set apart from the real practice of politics; it was politics. Rituals provided an opportunity for elites and ordinary people to negotiate political authority. Descriptions of rituals from three periods explore the networks of signification that informed different societies. From circa 2600 to 2200 BC, pilgrimage made kingdoms out of previously isolated villages. Similarly, from circa 1900 to 1700 BC, commemorative ceremonies legitimated new political dynasties by connecting them to a shared past. Finally, in the Hellenistic period, the traditional Babylonian Akitu festival was an occasion for Greek-speaking kings to show that they were Babylonian and for Babylonian priests to gain significant power.
The Ancient Fragments
Author: Isaac Preston CoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
