Founding gods, inventing nations [electronic resource] : conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / William F. McCants.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.Description: ix, 179 pSubject(s):- Mythology, Middle Eastern
- Greeks -- Middle East -- History
- Romans -- Middle East -- History
- Arabs -- Middle East -- History
- Acculturation -- Middle East -- History
- Civilization -- Philosophy
- Middle East -- Civilization -- Historiography
- Middle East -- Civilization -- Philosophy
- Middle East -- Intellectual life
- Middle East -- Colonization
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- DS57 .M434 2012
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Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.