Ancestor of the West
writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece
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Author
Contributions
- Herrenschmidt, Clarisse. - Contributor
- Vernant, Jean Pierre. - Contributor
Publication
2000 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL36836M
- ISBN-100226067157
- OCLC Control Number41049566
- OCLC Control Numberancestorofwestwr00bott
- Library of Congress Control Number99023113
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- Goodreads1082996
- LibraryThing1266300
Classifications
- DDC939./4
- LCCDS57 .B6813 2000
Description
"In this introduction to the ancient world, three leading French historians explore the emergence of rationality and writing: how it developed and how it is remarkably similar to our own tradition. We learn that the supposed twin pillars of Western civilization, Greece and the Bible, were hardly freestanding: they elaborated logical and religious structures that had developed much earlier in Mesopotamia. At the same time Ancestor of the West reminds us that these cultures were precursors of our own precisely because they possessed an intelligence that we still recognize. The ancients, even in their earliest writings, thought like us."--BOOK JACKET.
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