The city of Babylon : a history, c. 2000 BC-AD 116 / Stephanie Dalley, University of Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalley, Stephanie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Babylon (Extinct city)--History.

Babylon (Extinct city).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kingship under the empires of Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids and the Parthians. Its city walls were declared to be a Wonder of the World while its ziggurat won fame as the Tower of Babel. Visitors to Berlin can admire its Ishtar Gate, and the supposed location of its elusive Hanging Garden is explained. Worship of its patron god Marduk spread widely while its well-trained scholars communicated legal, administrative and literary works throughout the ancient world, some of which provide a backdrop to Old Testament and Hittite texts. Its science also laid the foundations for Greek and Arab astronomy through a millennium of continuous astronomical observations. This accessible and up-to-date account is by one of the world's leading authorities.

Contents:

Land and Peoples: an Introduction

Discoveries and Excavations

First Kings, to the Great Rebellion c.1894-1732

Law, Education, Literature: the path to supremacy

From the Great Rebellion to the end of the First Dynasty c.1732-1592

The next 6 centuries: Kassite, Sealander, and Elamite kings: c.1593-979

In the Shadow of Assyria 978-625

Independence under soldier-kings, from Nabopolassar to Nebuchadnezzar II 625-562

Nabonidus, Cyrus II The Great, and Cambyses 556-522

Part 1 From Darius I to Darius III 521-331; part 2 Alexander III of Macedon,

The Great, and Civil War 331-c.129; Part 3 Seleucus I to the First Parthian Conquest

First Parthian Conquest 141 BC to the visit of Trajan in AD 116.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-03871-0

1-009-03891-5

1-316-47972-2

OCLC:

1295273112