Scholars and Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk

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Tác giả khác: Proust, Christine (Biên tập viên), Steele, John (Biên tập viên)
Tóm tắt:X, 274 p. 24 illus.
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Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Phiên bản:1st ed. 2019.
Loạt:Why the Sciences of the Ancient World Matter, 2
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Truy cập trực tuyến:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04176-2
Định dạng: Điện tử Sách
Mục lục:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Scholars, Scholarly Archives and the Practice of Scholarship in Late Babylonian Uruk (Christine Proust and John Steele)
  • Chapter 2. Cultural Imports and Local Products in the Commentaries from Uruk. The case of the Gimil-Sîn Family (Uri Gabbay and Enrique Jiménez)
  • Chapter 3. A Mathematical Collection Found in the “House of the āšipus”. The Art of Metrology in Achaemenid Uruk (Christine Proust)
  • Chapter 4. Astronomical Activity in the ‘House of the āšipus’ in Uruk (John Steele)
  • Chapter 5. Astrological Texts from Late Babylonian Uruk (Hermann Hunger)
  • Chapter 6. Scholarly Mathematics in the Rēš Temple (Mathieu Ossendrijver)
  • Chapter 7. ‘Star Anu, Lord of Heaven’: The Influence of the Celestial Sciences on Temple Rituals in Hellenistic Uruk and Babylon (Julia Krul)
  • Chapter 8. Interactions Between Greek and Babylonian Thought in Seleucid Uruk (Paul-Alain Beaulieu)
  • Chapter 9. Uruk and the Greco-Roman World (Alexander Jones).