Stephanie Dalley
The City of Babylon
Stephanie Dalley
The City of Babylon
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Produktdetails
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 398
- Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
- Gewicht: 866g
- ISBN-13: 9781107136274
- ISBN-10: 110713627X
- Artikelnr.: 61213908
Stephanie Dalley is a member of the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College. She has excavated in the Middle East and published cuneiform texts found in Iraq, Syria and Jordan, and in museums in Baghdad, Oxford, London and Edinburgh. She is the author of The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon (2013), which formed the basis for a successful TV documentary. Her other books include Myths from Mesopotamia (1986), The Legacy of Mesopotamia (1998), Mari and Karana: Two Old Babylonian Cities (1984) and Esther's Revenge at Susa (2007), some of which have been translated into other languages. She has lectured worldwide including at universities, schools and societies, and taught for three decades at the Oriental Institute. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Preface
List of illustrations and maps
Timeline
Chart of ancient languages
1. Land and peoples: an introduction
2. Discoveries and excavations
3. First kings, to the great rebellion c.1894-1732
4. Law, education, literature: the path to supremacy
5. From the great rebellion to the end of the first dynasty c.1732-1592
6. The next 6 centuries: Kassite, Sealander, and Elamite kings: c.1593-979
7. In the shadow of Assyria 978-625
8. Independence under soldier-kings, from Nabopolassar to Nebuchadnezzar II 625-562
9. Nabonidus, Cyrus II The great, and Cambyses 556-522
10. Part I from Darius I to Darius III 521-331
Part II Alexander III of Macedon, The Great, and Civil War 331-c.129
Part III Seleucus I to the first parthian conquest
11. First parthian conquest 141 BC to the visit of trajan in AD 116
Appendix. Genesis 14:1-16 and possible links with foreign rulers early in the reign of Hammurabi
Bibliography
Index.
List of illustrations and maps
Timeline
Chart of ancient languages
1. Land and peoples: an introduction
2. Discoveries and excavations
3. First kings, to the great rebellion c.1894-1732
4. Law, education, literature: the path to supremacy
5. From the great rebellion to the end of the first dynasty c.1732-1592
6. The next 6 centuries: Kassite, Sealander, and Elamite kings: c.1593-979
7. In the shadow of Assyria 978-625
8. Independence under soldier-kings, from Nabopolassar to Nebuchadnezzar II 625-562
9. Nabonidus, Cyrus II The great, and Cambyses 556-522
10. Part I from Darius I to Darius III 521-331
Part II Alexander III of Macedon, The Great, and Civil War 331-c.129
Part III Seleucus I to the first parthian conquest
11. First parthian conquest 141 BC to the visit of trajan in AD 116
Appendix. Genesis 14:1-16 and possible links with foreign rulers early in the reign of Hammurabi
Bibliography
Index.
Preface
List of illustrations and maps
Timeline
Chart of ancient languages
1. Land and peoples: an introduction
2. Discoveries and excavations
3. First kings, to the great rebellion c.1894-1732
4. Law, education, literature: the path to supremacy
5. From the great rebellion to the end of the first dynasty c.1732-1592
6. The next 6 centuries: Kassite, Sealander, and Elamite kings: c.1593-979
7. In the shadow of Assyria 978-625
8. Independence under soldier-kings, from Nabopolassar to Nebuchadnezzar II 625-562
9. Nabonidus, Cyrus II The great, and Cambyses 556-522
10. Part I from Darius I to Darius III 521-331
Part II Alexander III of Macedon, The Great, and Civil War 331-c.129
Part III Seleucus I to the first parthian conquest
11. First parthian conquest 141 BC to the visit of trajan in AD 116
Appendix. Genesis 14:1-16 and possible links with foreign rulers early in the reign of Hammurabi
Bibliography
Index.
List of illustrations and maps
Timeline
Chart of ancient languages
1. Land and peoples: an introduction
2. Discoveries and excavations
3. First kings, to the great rebellion c.1894-1732
4. Law, education, literature: the path to supremacy
5. From the great rebellion to the end of the first dynasty c.1732-1592
6. The next 6 centuries: Kassite, Sealander, and Elamite kings: c.1593-979
7. In the shadow of Assyria 978-625
8. Independence under soldier-kings, from Nabopolassar to Nebuchadnezzar II 625-562
9. Nabonidus, Cyrus II The great, and Cambyses 556-522
10. Part I from Darius I to Darius III 521-331
Part II Alexander III of Macedon, The Great, and Civil War 331-c.129
Part III Seleucus I to the first parthian conquest
11. First parthian conquest 141 BC to the visit of trajan in AD 116
Appendix. Genesis 14:1-16 and possible links with foreign rulers early in the reign of Hammurabi
Bibliography
Index.