Founding gods, inventing nations : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCants, William F. (William Faizi), 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Civilization > Philosophy.
Mythology, Middle Eastern.
Greeks > Middle East > History.
Romans > Middle East > History.
Arabs > Middle East > History.
Acculturation > Middle East > History.
Civilisation > Philosophie.
Mythologie moyen-orientale.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Acculturation.
Arabs.
Civilization > Historiography.
Colonization.
Greeks.
Intellectual life.
Romans.
Middle East > Civilization > Historiography.
Middle East > Civilization > Philosophy.
Middle East > Intellectual life.
Middle East > Colonization.
Moyen-Orient > Civilisation > Historiographie.
Moyen-Orient > Civilisation > Philosophie.
Middle East.
History.
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.

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