'greeks' and 'greece' in Mesopotamian and Persian Perspectives

by Amélie Kuhrt

In this lecture, delivered at New College, Oxford, on the 7th of May, 2001, Kuhrt considers the question of perceptions: the problems inherent in trying to define what the people of the 'east' may have thought about Greeks at different periods in history. She focuses on the period between the 8th and the 3rd centuries BC, when the 'known world' was dominated, successively, by the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, Achaemenid Persian and Hellenistic Macedonian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0904920445
• ISBN13: 9780904920444
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Myres Memorial Lectures
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.3" x 9.5"