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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis

by Walter Burkert · November 17, 2004

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"This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Ninevah, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Easter-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in the first millennium B.C."--BOOK JACKET.

Greece, civilizationGreek literatureOriental influencesCivilizationKnowledgeMiddle EastIn literatureMagiAsian influences