Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire

ISBN-13: 9781526623829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 528 str.

Frahm Eckart Frahm

Opis

The masterful first comprehensive non-fiction account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria

Recenzje

Frahm engagingly chronicles the progress of the Assyrian Empire, illustrating how a peaceful polity very gradually lost the plot . . . Frahm has a fine eye for the ironies of history . . . He punctures a fair share of myths too . . . Assyria is a work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary: tablets and stele, of course, but also "faunal and floral analysis", "advanced forms of pottery studies" and satellite images. Frahm's prose has a light, aphoristic touch Pratinav Anil The Times

O autorze

Eckart Frahm is professor of Assyriology in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilisations at Yale. One of the world's foremost experts on the Assyrian Empire, he is the author or co-author of six books on ancient Mesopotamian history and culture. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.