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Title Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean world : a periplos / edited by Baruch Halpern, Kenneth S. Sacks ; associate editor, Tyler Edward Kelley.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 86
Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; volume 86.
Summary "Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers' Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight--the birth of science, monotheism, philosophy, even theory itself. Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World : a Periplos, explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essayists expand on an international discussion about myth, to which even the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. Detailed cases ground participants' capacity to illustrate both the variety of the disciplinary integuments in which we now speak, one with the other, across disciplines, and the sheer complexity of constructing a workable programme for true collaboration"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Subject Mediterranean Region -- Civilization.
Mediterranean Region.
Civilization.
Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 476.
History.
Chronological Term To 476
Subject Acculturation -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.
Acculturation.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Social change -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.
Social change.
Myth -- Social aspects -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500.
Myth.
Social aspects.
Mediterranean Region -- Relations.
Relations.
Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Social archaeology -- Mediterranean Region.
Social archaeology.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
International relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Halpern, Baruch, editor.
Sacks, Kenneth, editor.
Kelley, Tyler Edward, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean world. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004194540 (DLC) 2016036654
ISBN 9789004194557 (electronic book)
900419455X (electronic book)
9789004194540 (hardcover)
9004194541 (hardcover)
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004194557