Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam /
From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the d...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology
- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an
- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs
- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins
- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences.