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

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

Jean Bottéro, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Clarisse Herrenschmidt

208 pages • first pub 1996 (view editions)

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 "In this accessible introduction to the ancient world, three leading French scholars explore the emergence of rationality and writing in the West, tracing its development and its survival in our own traditions. . . . Jean Bottero focuses on writi...

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