Index
Aachen
135
Abydos
143
Academica Posteriora
263
Achelaus of Macedon, (king)
155
Achaemenid
45, 64, 66
dynasty
110
eras
85
period
108, 109
Achsenzeit (Axial Age)
26, 28, 38, 53, 54, 57, 58, 60, 65, 291
Acropolis
153
Adad-apla-iddina (Babylonian scholar)
94
Adapa
98, 101
Aegyptiaca
247
Aeneas
269, 270
Aeneid
70, 153, 292
Aeschines
218, 221, 226, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238
Aeschylus
18, 152, 153, 154, 157, 160, 161, 166, 169, 170, 173, 230
Aethiopia
65
Agatharchides of Cnidus
247
Agathon
230
Agentiality
54, 58
Akkad
93, 105
Akkadian
63, 86, 88, 287, 293
literature
92
Alamdimmu
94, 96
Alcidamas
230
Alexander the Great
24, 26, 66, 111, 155
Alexandria
23, 46, 66, 159, 229, 289
library of Alexandria
66, 158
Alexandrians
23
Alkibiades
25, 26
Alterity
71
Amenhotep III
143
Amenhotep, (Egyptian author)
143
Anatolia
88
Anchoring
51, 52
innovation
50, 153, 157, 159, 160, 161
Andalucia
63
Andocides
218, 225, 227, 230, 235
Andros
252
Annos (son of Ptolemy II)
249
Antigone
160
Antiochus
112
Antipater
234
Antiphon
218, 225, 226, 235
Antiquitates
264, 268, 269, 271, 272, 273, 276, 278, 280, 281, 288, 293
Antisthenes
230
Anu-belsunu (Seleucid scribe)
94, 111
Anu-iksur (Hellenistic period scholar from Uruk)
116
Anubis
273
Apelles
24
Apkallū
89, 111
Apollo
267, 277
Arabia
243
Arabian Nights
138
Aramaic
118, 293
Arameans
91, 96
Archaic
14, 27, 57
Aristarchos of Samothrace
23, 24, 25, 219
Aristarchus
236, 237
Aristophanes of Byzantium
23, 24, 219
Aristophanes
153, 157, 236, 237
Aristotle
18, 23, 24, 135, 159, 167
Artaxerxes
184, 199
Asclepius
267
Ashmolean Museum
7
Assmann, Jan
26, 29, 30, 34, 38, 44, 45, 55, 92, 131, 175, 290
Assur
89, 90, 93, 100, 102, 103
Assurbanipal
83, 100
Assurbanipal
98, 105
Assyria
83, 88, 90, 91, 104, 288, 290
Assyrian
37, 93
army
103
capital
89
cultures
96
king
103
kingdom
91
scholars
96, 102
Assyriology
83, 98
Athanasius
191
Athenians
22
Athenodorus
156
Athens
18, 19, 46, 152, 153, 157, 164, 165, 166, 168, 235, 292
Athenian
tragedians
18
tragedy
155, 156
Attica
7
Augustan Age
229, 235, 281
Augustan Rome
290
Augustine
264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 275
Augustus
36
Avesta
55
Axial breakthroughs
54, 57, 58
Aztec
12, 15
Baal-Zephon
62, 63
Babylon
85, 86, 92, 94, 108, 110, 112, 204, 206
Babylonia
63, 83, 86, 87, 90, 91, 103, 110
Babylonian
culture
91
cultures
96
dynasty
91
exile
45
gods
87
knowledge
85
sanctuaries
96
scholar
96
Ben Sira
182, 185, 189
Berossos
66, 118
Bible
84, 86, 179
Black Sea
65
Boni
269
Book of Job
178, 202
Book of Jubilees
293
Book of Nehemiah
184
Book of Proverbs
189, 202
Book of Psalms
189, 202
Book of Transformations
145
Borsippa
96, 105, 108, 113
British Museum
113
Bronze Age
131, 291
Brooklyn museum
145
Buddha
56
Buddhist
36
Byzantine
age
218, 288
period
161
Thessalonica
293
Byzantium
293
Caecilius of Caleacte
219, 224, 229, 232
Caesar
264, 272, 279, 280
Callimachus
229
Canon law
130
Canon of the Ten Attic Orators
218, 220, 221, 223, 225, 227, 229
Canterbury Tales
138
Capitol
273, 280
Cardauns
271, 273
Carthage
65, 179
Catalogue
42, 43, 64
Catholic
church
39, 51, 130
cult of saints
40
Catilina
270
Celts
65
Ceres
266
Chaeronea
155, 157
Chaldeans
118
Chasheshonqy (demotic author)
137
China
35, 36, 55
Chinese
36
literature
147
mandarinate
290
Christian
36
apologists
266
authorities
292
authors
267
Bible
3, 17, 179
canon
47
culture
47
New Testament
287
Old Testament
287
philosophies
135
traditions
198, 288, 289
west
135
world
179
Christianity
44, 46, 47, 58, 174
Cicero
223, 228, 263, 264, 270, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 293
Cicero’s De Legibus
276
Cicero’s Philippicae
223
City Dionysia
152, 154, 156, 164, 166, 167
City of God
266, 271
Classic (phase of Egyptian literature)
131
Classical
14, 57
antiquity
28
Athens
218, 239
author(s)
23, 28
canon
18
Greece
47, 164
Greek
238
period
7, 27
texts
28
world
17
Classics
17, 18
Clement of Alexandria
143
Confucius
55
Conon
234
Constantinople
289
Corinth
218
Council of Carthage
179
Council of Hippo
179
Council of Laodicea
179
Council of Rome
179
Council of Trent
40
Counter-reformation
40
Crete
61
Critias
235
Cross of Lothaire
135
Cultural
biography
17
memory
69, 96
Cybele
267
Cyclades
245
Cycladic figurines
9, 13
Cyprus
61
Cyrus the Great
110
Daniël
182
Daniel
289
Dante
25
Danube
65
Darius I
110
Das kulturelle Gedächtnis
131
David Ruhnken
193
De Architectura
7
Demetrius of Phalerum
235
Demetrius
228, 233
Demosthenes
218, 219, 221, 222, 225, 227, 232, 233, 235, 238
Demosthenes’ Philippicae
223
Demotic
130–135, 140, 142, 146–148
Dendera, temple of
142
Diadochi
114
Dinarchus
218, 225, 226, 230, 235
Dio of Prusa
219, 234, 235, 236
Diodorus Siculus
7, 9
Diodorus
253
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
219, 221, 228, 232, 233, 235, 237, 238, 239
Dionysus
152, 153, 243
Doric
7
Ea
96, 98, 101
Eastern Mediterranean
55, 63, 289
Edfu
143, 144
Egibatila
118
Egypt
12, 63, 65, 88, 131, 144, 148, 194, 223, 243, 253, 294
Egyptian
12
civilization
53
culture
134, 143, 148
deities
273, 274
god
62, 280
libraries
144
literature
62, 130, 131, 132, 134, 146, 245
temples
142
Ekur-Zākir family
108
El-Amarna
88
El-Behnasa
26
Elamites
91
Electra
160
Elephantine
138
Emar
88
Emesal
109
English
16
Enlightenment
70
Enlil
92
Ennius
293
Enuma Anu Enlil (work on astrology)
102, 105, 107, 109
Enuma Elis (foundation myth)
92, 118
Epic of Erra
96
Epic of Gilgamesh
88
Erechteus
156
Eridu
99
Esagil
112, 115
library
113
temple
92, 110
Esagil-kin-apli (Babylonian author)
94, 95, 96, 101
Esagil-kinam-ubbib (Babylonian author)
94
Esarhaddon (Assyrian king)
98, 103
Esther
179, 289, 181
Euhormos
vii, x
Euphrates
88
Eurasia
55
Euripides
18, 152, 153, 154, 155, 158, 160, 161, 166, 167, 169, 170, 173, 30
Eusebia
201
Ex Aegypto
248, 253
Exegete
42, 43, 52, 58, 67, 158
Flavius Josephus
192, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 208
Florence
170
Frogs
154, 157, 166
Furrina
270
Furrinalia
271
Gabinius
273
Galen
158
Galli
268
Globalisation
x, 38, 58, 60, 64, 66, 67, 70
Gorgias
230
Greco-Macedonians
148
Greco-Roman, vii
18, 36, 69
Greece
12, 70, 118, 154, 157, 165, 194, 222
Greek
12, 14, 16, 21, 26, 34, 37, 46, 48, 118, 218, 293
art
49
authors
225
colonization
63
culture
49, 222
literature
23, 49, 293
orators
218, 220
past
70
rhetoric
221
philosophy
49, 275
speeches
218
tragedy
152, 160, 165, 176
Greeks
47, 64, 131, 246
Hammurabi
86, 92
Han China
69
Han Empire
35, 68
Harpocrates
273
Harpocration
227
Hasmonean dynasty
194
Hattusa
88
Hebrew
293
canonisation
66
torah
46
Hebrew Bible
178, 179, 180, 190, 196, 209
Hegel
47, 56, 172
Hellenistic
age
27, 218, 222, 184, 188
Alexandria
23
civilization
46
copies of letters
107
Egypt
287
eras
85
kings
114, 292
legacy
46
past
70
period
7, 45, 89, 109, 110, 112, 114, 131, 140, 149, 158, 189
power
110
scholars
108, 219
schools
218
world
159
Heliopolis
66
Hephaistos
243
Hermogenes of Tarsus
219, 221, 226, 227, 228, 234, 235, 239
Herodes Atticus
228, 229
Herodotus
65, 238
Hesiod
24
Hieratic (traditional Egyptian cursive script)
130, 134
Hippone
179
Historicity
54, 58, 65
Hittites
63
Homer
25, 27, 28, 29, 65, 156, 174, 237
Homeric
vii, 170
Horace
265
Hordjedef, (Egyptian author)
143
Horus
244
Huelva hoard
63
Hyperides
218, 221, 226, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238
Hyspaosines, (Parthian king)
110
Iliad
25, 27, 63
Imhotep (Egyptian author)
143
Inaros cycle
137, 138
India
55
Indian
12, 14, 36
subcontinent
12
Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique
24, 25, 26, 29
Inka
15, 16
khipu
15, 16
Iphigenia in Tauris
167, 171
Iran
88
Irenaeus of Lyons
4
Irenaeus
289
Isaeus
218, 221, 226, 232, 233, 235
Isis
243, 244, 249, 254, 273
Iskaru (Akkadian word)
101, 102
Isocrates
218, 221, 226, 232,233, 235, 238
Israel
47, 63, 66, 191, 287
Itti-Marduk-balatu, (descendant of Musezib)
110, 112
Jaspers, Karl
26, 38, 53, 60, 291
Jeremia
56
Jeremiah
201
Jerusalem
46, 204
Jewish
36, 44, 45
culture
58
history
186
philosophies
135
torah
46
traditions
288
Jews
207
Judaism
48, 197, 198
Judea
148, 149
Justin Martyr
289
Kaduha (Cygnus)
117
Kalhu
94
Kallimachos of Kyrene
23, 24
Kassandreia
245, 247, 251
Kassite dynasty
86, 87, 89, 91, 92, 117
Ketuvim
178, 181
Khaemweset, (Egyptian author)
143
King James Bible
4
Kouroi
12
Kouros of Samos
14
Laotse (Chinese philosopher)
56
Larsa
86
Late Babylonian period
97, 107, 112
Late Bronze Age
62
Late Old Babylonian period
86, 117
Late Republican period
263
Latin
23, 293
authors
225
texts
22
Lenaia
168
Leonardo da Vinci
7, 8, 9
Libraries of Assurbanipal
98
Life of the Ten Orators
154
Livy
278, 279
Longinus
228
Louvre
19
Lucretius
22, 27
Lycurgus
152, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 175, 218, 226, 232, 233, 234, 235, 289
Lysias
218, 221, 226, 232, 233, 235, 237, 238
Maccabees
180, 185
Macedonia
155, 245
Manetho
66
Marcion
3, 288
Marcus Aurelius
174
Marduk
92, 96, 101, 112
Marone
252
Marx, Karl
47
Maurya Empire
69
Medea
167
Medieval Latin
130
Mediterranean
vii, 61, 65, 70, 292
Megiddo
88
Memoire volontaire
34, 35, 36
Memphis
141, 244, 248, 250, 252
Memphite Theological Document
141
Menkheperre, (king of Upper Egypt)
142
Mesoamerica
12
Mesoamerican
12
Mesopotamia
65, 83, 87, 194, 287
Metellus
269, 270
Michelangelo
25, 50
Middle Babylonian
ductus
97
period
84, 85, 86, 117
Middle Egyptian
142
Middle Kingdom
131
Mitanni
88
Modern Europe
176
Moïse
204
Molière
25
Mouseion
159
Mozart
25
Muslim
philosophies
135
world
135
Nabonassar
113
Nabonidus chronicle
115
Nabonidus
114
Nabû-ahhe-eriba (astrologer)
106
Nabû-zuqup-kenu (Neo-Assyrian court scholar)
116
Nabû
105
Nazi-maruttas
89, 90
Near East
55, 61, 85, 88, 131, 291, 294
Nebuchadnezzar I
92, 94
Neo-Assyrian
catalogue
88
cities
107
court
83
empire
64, 105
kings
93
period
113
scholars
85
scribes
92
state
107
royal libraries
105
Neo-Babylonian dynasty
108
Nevi’im
178, 181
New Kingdom
131, 136
New Testament
3, 4, 5, 22, 49, 179, 288, 289
Nicolas de Tolentino
39
Nietzsche
171
Nile Valley
61
Nineveh
83, 98, 100, 102, 104, 105, 108
Ninurta-aha-iddina (Assyrian scribe)
83
Nippur
86, 93, 108, 116
North Africa
61, 65, 131
Numa Pompilius
278, 279
Nysa
243
Octavian
281
Odyssey
25, 27, 65, 160
Oedipus Coloneus
160, 166
Oedipus Rex
160, 167
Oedipus
172
Old Babylonian
ductus
97
period
85
Old Kingdom
7
Old Testament
3, 292
Oresteia
160
Orestes
167
Osiris
143, 243, 244, 254
Ounas
143
Oxford
7
Oxyrhynchos
26
Papyrus Insinger
140, 145
Parmenides
56
Parthenon
50
Parthian
empire
70
eras
85
period
108
Pentateuch
287
Pericles
222
Perikles
24, 26
Persia
55
Persian
37, 66, 112, 131, 287
empire
183
Persians
45, 118, 148, 186
Pharaoh
138
Pharaonic regime
159
Pheidias
24
Pherecydes of Syros
55
Phillip II of Macedon
155
Philo of Byblos
66
Philostratus
227, 229
Phoenicia
66
Phoenician
colonization
63
Photius
228
Pindar
24
Plato
18, 24, 222, 238
Pleiades
103
Plutarch
22, 154, 155
Plution
234
Poetics
159, 167
Poggio Bracciolini
23, 27
Polyclitus
219, 222
Pompeians
272
Pope
130
Prince Setne Khaemweset
144
Protestant
39
Proverbs
178
Pseudo-Acro
265
Pseudo-Plutarch
220, 228, 235, 239
Ptah
244
Ptolemies
249
Ptolemy II
249
Ptolemy III, king
158
Pythagoras
55
Qin dynasty
91
Qohéleth
178, 181, 202
Quintilian
23, 24, 219, 221, 225, 228, 229, 233, 235, 236, 237, 239, 263
Quran
188
Racine
25
Raphael
25, 29, 50
Reception studies
17
Reflexivity
54, 58, 65
Reformation
39, 40
Renaissance
18, 136
Republican age
268
Roman
37, 131
age
218
calendar
281
canonisation
70
citizens
268
deity
271
Egypt
287
Empire
36, 69, 70, 159, 175, 203, 204, 208
identity
280
pantheon
274
period
134, 144, 147, 161
religion
265, 268, 272, 273, 275, 281
religious heritage
267, 268, 281
religious law
276
republic
68, 267
schools
218, 219
state
278
tradition
265
Romans
23, 47, 68, 148, 263, 264
Rome
19, 70, 118, 170, 179, 221, 239, 263, 268, 271, 276, 281, 288
Russia
65
Ruth
179, 181, 201
Sagenkreis
137
Said, Edward
18
Sais
138
Sakikku
94, 95, 96, 117
Salamis
8
Samas-sum-ukin (Babylonian king)
104
Samas
101
Samian
foot
7
half-cubit
14
Samos
14
Samsu-iluna
86
Sanskrit
12
Sappho
24, 25
Sargonid dynasty
97, 100
Schlegel
171
Second dynasty of Isin
91, 96, 97, 117
Second Temple
181, 182, 183, 186, 188, 192, 195, 196, 197, 209
Seleucid
empire
66, 115
Seneca
174, 270
Sennacherib (king of the Neo-Assyrian empire)
93
Sentinus
272
Septuagint
46, 48
Serapis
273
Servius Danielis
266
Servius
266
Seth
62, 63
Shakespeare
25
Sicily
18, 22
Sîn-leqi-unninni
88, 90
Sippar
108
Sokrates
24
Sophocles the Younger
166
Sophocles
18, 15, 152, 153, 154, 158, 160, 161, 166, 169, 170, 173, 222, 230
Southern Italy
18, 22
Soviet Union
294
Spain
65
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty
18
Standard Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh
103
Stele of Kyme and Diodorus
244, 253
Stoic
174
Stoicism
174
Story of Petese, son of Petetum
138, 140
Stroumsa, Guy
44
Subsi-mesre-Sakkan
90
Suda (Byzantine encyclopedia)
224, 228
Sumer
86, 93, 98, 104
Sumerian
88
Sumero-Akkadian
culture
115
kingship
96
literature
96
royal culture
112
scholars
110
tradition
89, 108, 113, 118
Summanus
271
Suteans
91, 96
Syracusans
22
Syracuse
218
Syria
62, 88
Tebtunis library
147
Tebtunis, herbal of
140
Telekles of Samos
9
Tell el-Dab’a
62
Telmessos
248, 251
Temple of Ptah
141, 248
Terence
293
Tertullian
266, 273
Tetralogy
165
Thapsus
264
Theodoros of Samos
9
Theodorus
234
Thessaloniki
170, 245
Thirty Tyrants
235
Thot
143, 144
Thucydides
237
Thutmes III
143
Titus Tatius (Sabine king)
272
Torah
66, 178, 180, 182, 190, 195
Troy
269
Tukulti-Ninurta I, (Middle Assyrian king)
104
Tyrtaeus
156
Ugarit
88
Umberto Eco
23
Ummânu
89, 111
Ur
86
Uruanna
102
Uruk list of Sages and Kings
110
Uruk
86, 89, 94, 108, 113, 116
Vacuna
265
Varro
263, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 272, 273, 274, 275, 277, 279, 280, 281, 288, 293
Venus de Milo
50e
Venus Medici
14
Venus
266
Virgil
24, 25, 153, 293
Vitruvius
7
Vitumnus
272
Weber
57, 60
Western Middle Ages
288
Wilbour papyrus lot
145
Xerxes
110
Zagros Mountains
87
Zarathustra
55
Zeus-Ammon
248