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sage01 's review for:
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced
by Stephanie Dalley
Published in 2013, idk what scholarship has happened since, so caveat. But.
Mostly I hate the way this book is organized. The argument is poorly presented. There's a clear bias against Persian sources, despite Nineveh spending a lot of time under Persian rule, and no indication of looking at sources beyond the Greco-Roman, Josephus, Germans, and, of course, the British. I haven't read such an anglocentric history of a place thousands of miles from the UK in a while. Kinda weird.
Most hilarious is when Dalley can't imagine plants surviving the terrible heat of the heinously low latitude of Nineveh, which is 36N. Um. WTAF?!
Mostly I hate the way this book is organized. The argument is poorly presented. There's a clear bias against Persian sources, despite Nineveh spending a lot of time under Persian rule, and no indication of looking at sources beyond the Greco-Roman, Josephus, Germans, and, of course, the British. I haven't read such an anglocentric history of a place thousands of miles from the UK in a while. Kinda weird.
Most hilarious is when Dalley can't imagine plants surviving the terrible heat of the heinously low latitude of Nineveh, which is 36N. Um. WTAF?!