Foreigners in the Ancient Near East

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ID3966563
AutoresGary Beckman (Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume133
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2021-12-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
EditoraAmerican Oriental Society (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7817/jameroriesoci.133.2.0203
OpenAlexW177632899
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências 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