Vergeten volkeren. Verloren culturen op de kaart gezet. - MATYSZAK, Ph.,
Verloren culturen op de kaart gezet
KORTE INHOUD
Original title: Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World. 'What have the Akkadians ever done for us? As it turns out, rather a lot, as Philip Matyszak reveals in this lively, handsomely produced study of peoples and tribes whose PR departments were a smidgeon less muscular than the Romans?. Their obscure names are woven into our language: we sing ?Land me safe on Canaan?s side?; we talk of oligarchs as ?rich as Croesus?; we quote the Assyrian coming down ?like the wolf on the fold?; and the aesthete?s go-to insult, ?philistine?. Their stories, however, are not, and this book attempts to fill in the gaps. (...) Out of the scattered fragments of myth, legend and archaeology, Matyszak builds a compelling narrative of displacement and power at the edges of human knowledge. And it?s a welcome tonic to be reminded that humanity has faced a lot worse than a virus, and come through it, still farming, still building, still fighting.' (PHILIP WOMACK on the english original 06.06.2020).
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Utrecht, 2020. 288p. Richly ills.(Full colour). Paperback.New Titel: Vergeten volkeren. Verloren culturen op de kaart gezet. Auteur: MATYSZAK, Ph.,
Original title: Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World. 'What have the Akkadians ever done for us? As it turns out, rather a lot, as Philip Matyszak reveals in this lively, handsomely produced study of peoples and tribes whose PR departments were a smidgeon less muscular than the Romans?. Their obscure names are woven into our language: we sing ?Land me safe on C...
Original title: Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World. 'What have the Akkadians ever done for us? As it turns out, rather a lot, as Philip Matyszak reveals in this lively, handsomely produced study of peoples and tribes whose PR departments were a smidgeon less muscular than the Romans?. Their obscure names are woven into our language: we sing ?Land me safe on C...
