Stephanie Dalley

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon (eBook, ePUB)

An Elusive World Wonder Traced

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths. In this remarkable volume Stephanie Dalley, a world expert on ancient Babylonian language, gathers for the first time all the material on this enigmatic World Wonder. Tracing the history of the Garden, Dalley describes how the decipherment of an original text and its link to sculpture in the British Museum has enabled her to pin down where the Garden was positioned and to describe in detail what it may have looked like. Through this dramatic and fascinating reconstruction of the Garden, Dalley is also able to follow its influence on later garden design. Like a palimpsest, Dalley unscrambles the many legends that have built up around the Garden, including the parts played by Semiramis and Nebuchadnezzar, and following the evolution of its design, she shows why this Garden deserves its place alongside the Pyramids and the Colossus of Rhodes as one of the most astonishing technical achievements of the ancient world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191639333
• Artikelnr.: 38128330

Autorenporträt

Stephanie Dalley is an Honorary Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford, a Member of Wolfson College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. With degrees in Assyriology from the Universities of Cambridge and London, her academic career has specialized in the study of ancient cuneiform texts and she has worked on archaeological excavations in Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Jordan. She has written several books on the myths and culture of ancient Mesopotamia, with special reference to their impact on later civilizations, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Italian, and Japanese. She lives in Oxford with her husband and maintains a large garden.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Colour Plates
List of Figures
Time-line
General Map
Introduction
1: Drawing a Blank in Babylon
2: Classical Writers and their Testimony
3: Three Pictures, and Archimedes
4: Sennacherib's Great Invention
5: Engineering for Water Management
6: Confusion of Names
7: The Unrivalled Palace, the Queen and the Garden
8: Symbolism and Imitators
9: Defeat and Revival: Nineveh after 612 BC
Conclusion
Appendix: The Section of Prism Inscription Describing the Palace and Garden
Notes
Bibliography
Index