An edition of Ancestor of the West (2000)

Ancestor of the West

writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece

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An edition of Ancestor of the West (2000)

Ancestor of the West

writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece

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"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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192

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Ancestor of the West: writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece
2000, University of Chicago Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-181) and index.
Translation of: L'Orient ancien et nous.

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Chicago

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
939./4
Library of Congress
DS57 .B6813 2000, DS57.B6813 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 192 p. :
Number of pages
192

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Open Library
OL36836M
Internet Archive
ancestorofwestwr00bott
ISBN 10
0226067157, 0226067165
LCCN
99023113
OCLC/WorldCat
41049566
Library Thing
1266300
Goodreads
1082996
2795395

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