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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Professor Emeritus Of Classics Walter Burkert & Walter Burkert is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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

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Author

Professor Emeritus Of Classics Walter Burkert & Walter Burkert

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674014893

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Anthropology, Sociology

Rating

3.82 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14