Founding gods, inventing nations conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam
From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the d...
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Princeton, N.J.
Princeton University Press
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology
- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an
- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs
- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins
- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences