Foreigners in the Ancient Near East

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3966563
AutoresGary Beckman (Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen133
Número2
Fecha de publicación2021-12-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
EditorialAmerican Oriental Society (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7817/jameroriesoci.133.2.0203
OpenAlexW177632899
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas17

A survey of diverse aspects of the reception, attitudes toward, and activities of foreigners in the major cuneiform cultures of the third through first millennia B.C.E. While outsiders could play important roles in their new environments, they were generally soon assimilated into their host societies without effecting significant changes in them. Only toward the close of this period did the arrival of large groups of invaders convinced of the superiority of their own cultures, such as Persians and Greco-Macedonians, radically alter the age-old civilizations of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Cuneiform · Geography · Mesopotamia · Middle East · Period (music · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History