Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004397752 ISBN 13 : 9789004397750

Editeur : Brill, 2019

Synopsis

This volume offers the first holistic examination of the Astronomical Diaries, a remarkable set of 1000 clay tablets from ancient Babylon in which for over 500 years (6th1st century BCE) scholars combined astronomical observations with records of events on earth.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Johannes Haubold is Professor of Classics at Princeton University. He has published several books on ancient Greek and Mesopotamian literature and culture (e.g. Greece and Mesopotamia: Dialogues in Literature, Cambridge 2013).John Steele is Professor of the History of the Exact Sciences in Antiquity in the Department of Egyptology and Assyriology at Brown University. He has published extensively on Babylonian astronomy (e.g. A Brief History of Astronomy in the Middle East, London 2008).Kathryn Stevens is Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She has published on various aspects of Greek and Babylonian cultural and intellectual history (e.g. Between Greece and Babylonia: Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Cambridge 2019).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004397752
• ISBN 13: 9789004397750
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Éditeur: Haubold Johannes, Steele John, Stevens Kathryn
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible