Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece by Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt

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

Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt with Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)

208 pages • first pub 2000 (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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