Cultural contact and appropriation in the Axial-Age Mediterranean world : a periplos /

Karl Jaspers dubbed the period, 800-400 BCE, the Axial Age. Axial it was, for out of it emerged the idea of Greek culture, with its influence on Roman and later empires. Jaspers' Axial Age was the chrysalis of culturally-meaningful modernity. Trade expands intellectual horizons. The economic an...

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Other Authors: Halpern, Baruch., Sacks, Kenneth., Kelley, Tyler Edward.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2017.

Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 86.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004327917.

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Acculturation > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500.

Social change > Mediterranean Region > History > To 1500.

Myth > Social aspects > History > Mediterranean Region > To 1500.

Social archaeology > Mediterranean Region.