TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCants,William F.
TI  - Founding gods, inventing nations: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam 
SN  - 9781400840069
AV  - DS57 .M434 2012eb
U1  - 939/.40072 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Mythology, Middle Eastern
KW  - Greeks
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Romans
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Mythologie moyen-orientale
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Moyen-Orient
KW  - Historiographie
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-166) and index; 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
N2  - 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 dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire. The Greek and Roman conquests brought with them a learned culture that competed with that of native elites
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