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"Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis is a unique survey of the thought-world of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. There is an insight in almost every sentence, a challenge in every paragraph, and a lifetime of study in every chapter. The author manages this without losing his sense of wonder, and this is the greatest achievement of the book." - John Ray, Times Literary Supplement "Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture reflects its origin as a lecture series and reads smoothly, with Burkert's prodigious scholarship made manifest in the 30 pages of endnotes. For those unconvinced by Bernal, this wide-ranging and scholarly demonstration that Greek culture did not emerge in isolation might just be the right book." - John Bennet, Times Higher Education Supplement"
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This book traverses the ancient world's three great centres 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.
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Less that the title suggests
6 Mar 2005
Format:Hardcover
The books is composed of five lectures on Early Oriental-Greek interactions: 1) Alphabetic Writing; 2) Orientalizing Features in Homer; 3) Oriental Wisdom Literature and Cosmogony; 5) Orpheus and Egypt; and 5)The Advent of the Magi (total, 124 pages plus bibligraphy and notes). I.E., no general framework is provided on Oriental-Greek relations, only some interesting but few issues are treated.In my opinion, that is rather poor for a book whose subtitle is "Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture". I would much rather reccomend "The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies"
by Thomas McEvilley.
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Burkert is the authority on this topic
25 July 2005
Format:Hardcover
read a really good and comprehensive review of this book at Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Reviewed by Molly M. Levine, Howard University
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With its user friendly tone and emphasis on ideas and interpretation,this slim book makes good on the author's promise to stick to the spirit of its origins in a 1996 lecture series at the Universita Ca Foscari of Venice on the now popular subject of cultural exchange in the ancient Mediterranean. Well before Bernal there was Burkert, who here speaks with the authority of one who has devoted a lifetime to once unpopular alliances of Classics with,inter alia, anthropology,evolutionary psychology, and the Near East.
Reviewed by Molly M. Levine, Howard University
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With its user friendly tone and emphasis on ideas and interpretation,this slim book makes good on the author's promise to stick to the spirit of its origins in a 1996 lecture series at the Universita Ca Foscari of Venice on the now popular subject of cultural exchange in the ancient Mediterranean. Well before Bernal there was Burkert, who here speaks with the authority of one who has devoted a lifetime to once unpopular alliances of Classics with,inter alia, anthropology,evolutionary psychology, and the Near East.
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