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Ancestor of the West - Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece by Jean Bottéro; Clarisse Herrenschmidt; Jean-Pierre Vernant; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator); Francois Zabbal (Foreword by)
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With Ancestor of the West, three distinguished French historians reveal the story of the birth of writing and reason, demonstrating how the logical religious structures of Near Eastern and Mesopotamian cultures served as precursors to those of the West. "Full of matter for anyone interested in language, ...Show more
The Origins of Greek Thought by Jean-Pierre Vernant
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Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they lived. The emergence of rational thought, Vernant claims, ...Show more
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