Clio's Other Sons

John D. Dillery

earliest edition we have, 2015 University of Michigan Press, 2015

"Soon after the death of Alexander the Great, the priest Berossus wrote the first known narrative and comprehensive history of his native Babylon, and the priest Manetho likewise wrote the first such history of his native Egyptian civilization. Nothing like these histories had been produced before in these cultures. Clio's Other Sons considers why that is: why were these histories written at this point, and for what...

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Clio's Other Sons edition · 2015 · University of Michigan Press · 504 pages · 9780472120451
Clio's Other Sons edition · 2015 · University of Michigan Press · 536 pages · 9780472052271
Clio's Other Sons edition · 2015 · University of Michigan Press · 9780472072279

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