Showing Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert

Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis 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 Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium BC. Full description