Title : The Ancient Orient and Us - J. Bottero - book
Summary :
This book focuses on the Mesopotamian heritage, more precisely on the major inventions of the society born, in the 4th millennium BC, from the encounter between Sumerians and Akkadians on the soil of present-day Iraq. The myth of the two ultimate origins of the West, the Bible and Greece, has long since been definitively shaken by Assyriology. The investigation carried out in this book by Jean Bottéro, a great specialist in Mesopotamia, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, whose work focuses on the history of writing, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, historian of ancient Greece, reveals the multiple currents stemming from the civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates. From Sumer and Akkad comes the writing that gives birth to deductive reason, opens new economic horizons and makes possible a universal religion. Elamites, Achaemenids, Jews, and Greeks forged unprecedented links between the here and the invisible world through the alphabet and language. The Greeks, inspired in part by Babylon, invented the world of politics and civic religion. Thus, Aramaic, Jewish, Persian, and Greek cultures have continually intersected over the centuries, up to and including Islam. From these numerous exchanges and encounters emerges a legacy from before the rupture between East and West. Without casually ignoring this separation, the fruit of a more recent history, the increasingly keen awareness of this common space of civilization should be the promise of another future.
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EAN: 9782012788558
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