Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece by Jean Bottéro, Teresa Lavender Fagan, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Clarisse Herrenschmidt

Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece

Jean Bottéro, Teresa Lavender Fagan, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Clarisse Herrenschmidt

208 pages • first pub 2000 (view editions)

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With Ancestor of the West, three distinguished French historians reveal the story of the birth of writing and reason, demonstrating how the logical religious structures of Near Eastern and Mesopotamian cultures served as precursors to those of the...

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