Tidings and Instructions
How News Travelled in the Ancient Near East
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9086041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan D Crown (1University of Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 244-271 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4995 • E-ISSN: 1568-5209 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156852074x00165 |
| OpenAlex | W1966405137, W4239033339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
The transmission of news has been a prime function of all human activity since the first occasion that man informed his neigh-bour that a food animal was in the vicinity*. Coordination of activity on a larger scale, which is the basis of Ancient Near Eastern, indeed, all civilization, was impossible without the transmission of tidings and instructions. Some means of transmitting the instructions of rulers and administrators, of coordinating the activities of city states in their work for a common purpose, of directing armies and of gathering intelligence was a prime necessity. Sargon II of Assyria left a vivid account of what it was like to be in action when all means of communication was lost
Action (physics) · Ancient history · Archaeology · Asian studies · Assyria · China · Civilization · East Asia · Function (biology) · Prime (order theory) · Telecommunications · Transmission (telecommunications) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 2024 (50) |
| Highly cited | No |