Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean world : a periplos

Weitere Verfasser: Halpern, Baruch , [HerausgeberIn]
Kelley, Tyler Edward, , [HerausgeberIn]
Sacks, Kenneth, , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017].
Umfang/Format: ix , 315 pages : illustrations.
Schriftenreihe: Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 86
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Online Zugang: Online available (Ebook Central)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction / Baruch Halpern and Kenneth S. Sacks
  • Zeus and Prometheus : Greek adaptations of ancient Near Eastern myths / Kurt A. Raaflaub
  • The theogony and the Enuma Elish : city-state creation myths / Stephen Scully
  • Achaemenid propaganda and oral traditions : a reassessment of Herodotus' early Persian logoi / Jonathan David
  • Evidence of peace and war in Persian period Yehud / John W. Betlyon
  • Alphabetic writing in the Mediterranean world : transmission and appropriation / Andre Lemaire
  • The name of the Prophet Hăbaqqûq / David S. Vanderhooft
  • Amurca : a Semitic loanword? / Eric Lee Welch
  • Twin peaks : from Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles / Assaf Yasur-Landau
  • A cache of terracotta votives from Mendes : elements of popular religion in the Axial Age / Susan Redford
  • The origin and termination of the foreign colony-garrison at Elephantine / Donald Redford
  • When chimaeras were chimaeras / Baruch Halpern
  • Medicine and mathematics in fifth-century Greece and the question of Near Eastern influence / Markus Asper
  • Who markets ideas? : elite and non-elite transmission of culture and technology / Kenneth S. Sacks.