Hammurabi of Babylon

by Dominique Charpin

Book Overview

Hammurabi was the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its greatest. Expanding the role and influence of the Babylonian city-state into an imperium that crushed its rivals and dominated the entire fertile plain of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi (who ruled c. 1792-1750 BCE) transformed a minor kingdom into the regional superpower of its age. But this energetic monarch, whose geopolitical and military strategies were unsurpassed in his time, was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350197785
• ISBN13: 9781350197787
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"