Description
This collection explores the spread of culture through literacy from Mesopotamia into Egypt, Palestine and Greece after a system of writing was developed. By gathering evidence from a vast range of material and literary sources from 3000 BC onwards, threads of influence and continuity are traced into the Middle Ages. The effect of recent rediscovery on European art is also explored.
Reviews
"Useful in pointing out the great reach of Mesopotamian culture...This book presents an enormous wealth of data from literature, art, religion and science. It also examines the various cultures- Judeo-Christian, Greek, Roman, Parthian, Sassanian, early Islamic and Indian- that were inheritors of the Mesopotamian legacy."
--Archaeology Odyssey
"The Legacy of Mesopotamia is a treasure chest of surprises....we are all in debt to Professor Dalley and her colleagues for providing us with so comprehensive and lucid a guide to the evidence and scholarship on cultural interaction between Mesopotamia and her neighbors."
--Ancient History Bulletin
Product Details 246 pages; 5 maps, 97 halftones & line illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-929158-8ISBN10: 0-19-929158-6
About the Author(s)
Stephanie Dalley, Shillito Fellow in Assyriology at the Oriental Institute; Senior Research Fellow, Somerville College, Oxford, A. T. Reyes, David Pingree, Professor of the History of Mathematics and Classics, Brown University, Alison Salvesen, teacher of Aramaic and Syriac, Oriental Institute, Oxford, and Henrietta McCall. Edited by Stephanie Dalley with drawings by Marion Cox
