Broschiertes Buch

Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond

Beschreibung

A celebration of the ways in which popular culture have consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities: archaeologists, philologists, historians and art historians reflect on how ideas and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been reimagined within our shared cultural memories.

Autor

Lorenzo Verderame is professor of Assyriology at "Sapienza" University of Rome. His publications include an edition of the first six chapters of the astrological series Enūma Anu Enlil (Le tavole I-VI della serie astrologica Enūma Anu Enlil, 2002) and overviews of Sumerian and Akkadian literature (Letterature dell'antica Mesopotamia, Firenze Le Monnier Universita, 2016) and civilization (Introduzione alle culture dell'antica Mesopotamia, Milano Mondadori Education, 2017). He is the epigraphist in chief of Italian Archaeological Expedition to Tell Zurghul, ancient Nigin (Iraq). Agnes Garcia-Ventura is currently lecturer at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. She is the editor of several volumes, including Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East (with Saana Svard, Eisenbrauns and Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018) and What's in a Name? Work Force and Job Categories in the Ancient Near East (Ugarit-Verlag, 2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lockwood Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781948488242
• ISBN-10: 1948488248
• Artikelnr.: 59985836