![]() | Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam Subjects: Middle East -- Civilization -- Historiography; Middle East -- Civilization -- Philosophy; Civilization -- Philosophy; Mythology Middle Eastern; Middle East -- Intellectual life; Middle East -- Colonization; Greeks -- Middle East -- History; Romans -- Mid; 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. William F. McCants received his PhD from Princeton University and is currently adjunct faculty at Johns Hopkins University. |
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