Michael Roaf
Autore di Atlante della Mesopotamia e dell'antico Vicino Oriente
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Opere di Michael Roaf
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1947
- Sesso
- male
- Nazione (per mappa)
- United Kingdom
- Istruzione
- University College of London (Archaeology of Western Asia)
University of Oxford (PhD Thesis) - Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- University of California, Berkeley
British School of Archaeology, Iraq (Director, 1981-1985)
Ludwig Maximilians Universität
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Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near… di Michael Roaf
Fascinating & concise illustrated history of Ancient Mesopotamia.
From the Villages, to Cities, to Empires (Assyria, Lydia, Babylonia, Medes, Persia).
Few histories avoid the sheer stupifying plutons of irony which litter the landscape. For example, it was Persia under one of its greatest monarchs, Cyrus, who liberated the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity [204, 215]. Today, the Persians are led by a man indifferent to history, but devoted to an ideology at odds with the same Jews who adopted and saved so much Persian wisdom in their almost single-handed and unappreciated tradition of passing information between generations.
Contains a Glossary.… (altro)
Few histories avoid the sheer stupifying plutons of irony which litter the landscape. For example, it was Persia under one of its greatest monarchs, Cyrus, who liberated the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity [204, 215]. Today, the Persians are led by a man indifferent to history, but devoted to an ideology at odds with the same Jews who adopted and saved so much Persian wisdom in their almost single-handed and unappreciated tradition of passing information between generations.
Contains a Glossary.… (altro)
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- 20
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