Review of Grogan, Beyond Greece and Rome

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Beyond Greece and Rome: reading the ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe.

Jane Grogan, Beyond Greece and Rome: reading the ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii, 341. ISBN 9780198767114 $105.00.

Review by
Raphael Magarik, University of Illinois Chicago. magarik@uic.edu

The book deals with the early modern reception of the Persia, Assyria, and Babylon of the Classical Greek writers, holy land pilgrimage, Alexander the Great, Zenobia of Palmyra, etc.

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