LEADER 04262nam 2200517 450 001 9910136705703321 005 20190826145055.0 010 $a90-04-19455-X 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004194557 035 $a(CKB)3710000000907209 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4718636 035 $a(OCoLC)964462132$z(OCoLC)956351378 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004194557 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000907209 100 $a20161027h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aCultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean world $ea periplos /$fedited by Baruch Halpern, Kenneth S. Sacks, Tyler Edward Kelley 210 1$aLeiden, Netherlands ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cBrill,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (325 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aCulture and History of the Ancient Near East,$x1566-2055 ;$vVolume 86 311 $a90-04-19454-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tPreliminary Material -- $tIntroduction /$rBaruch Halpern and Kenneth S. Sacks -- $tZeus and Prometheus: Greek Adaptations of Ancient Near Eastern Myths /$rKurt A. Raaflaub -- $tThe Theogony and the Enuma Elish: City-State Creation Myths /$rStephen Scully -- $tAchaemenid Propaganda and Oral Traditions: A Reassessment of Herodotus? Early Persian Logoi /$rJonathan David -- $tEvidence of Peace and War in Persian Period Yehud /$rJohn W. Betlyon -- $tAlphabetic Writing in the Mediterranean World: Transmission and Approriation /$rAndré Lemaire -- $tThe Name of the Prophet ??baqqûq /$rDavid S. Vanderhooft -- $t??????/Amurca: A Semitic Loanword? /$rEric Lee Welch -- $tTwin Peaks: From Mt. Saphon to the Pillars of Herakles /$rAssaf Yasur-Landau -- $tA Cache of Terracotta Votives from Mendes: Elements of Popular Religion in the Axial Age /$rSusan Redford -- $tThe Origin and Termination of the Foreign Colony-Garrison at Elephantine /$rDonald Redford -- $tWhen Chimaeras were Chimaeras /$rBaruch Halpern -- $tMedicine and Mathematics in Fifth-century Greece and the Question of Near Eastern Influence /$rMarkus Asper -- $tWho Markets Ideas? Elite and Non-elite Transmission of Culture and Technology /$rKenneth S. Sacks -- $tBibliography -- $tAncient Sources Index -- $tModern Authors Index. 330 $aKarl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers? Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic and political effects permeate such social domains as technology, language and worldview. In the last category, many issues take on an emotional freight ? the birth of science, monotheism, philosophy, even theory itself. Cultural Contact and Appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean World: A Periplos , explores adaptation, resistance and reciprocity in Axial-Age Mediterranean exchange (ca. 800-300 BCE). Some essayists expand on an international discussion about myth, to which even the Church Fathers contributed. Others explore questions of how vocabulary is reapplied, or how the alphabet is reapplied, in a new environment. Detailed cases ground participants? capacity to illustrate both the variety of the disciplinary integuments in which we now speak, one with the other, across disciplines, and the sheer complexity of constructing a workable programme for true collaboration. 410 0$aCulture and history of the ancient Near East ;$vVolume 86. 606 $aCulture$xHistory$zMediterranean Region 606 $aCivilization$xHistory$zMediterranean Region 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCulture$xHistory 615 0$aCivilization$xHistory 676 $a303.4824 702 $aHalpern$b Baruch 702 $aSacks$b Kenneth S. 702 $aKelley$b Tyler Edward 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136705703321 996 $aCultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-age Mediterranean world$92548832 997 $aUNINA