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Babylon: Legend, History and the Ancient City

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Babylon: for eons its very name has been a byword for luxury and wickedness. “By the rivers of Babylon we sat down and wept,” wrote the psalmist, “as we remembered Zion.” Probably the most greatest cities of the ancient world, Babylon has been eclipsed by its own sinful reputation. For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried at the same time as any other, ghostly city lived on, engorged on accounts of its own destruction. More recently the web page of Babylon has been the centre of major excavation, yet the spectacular results of this work have done little to displace the many other fascinating ways in which the city has endured and reinvented itself in culture. Saddam Hussein, for one, notoriously exploited the Babylonian myth to associate himself and his regime with its glorious past.
Why has Babylon so creatively fired the human imagination, with results both good and in poor health? Why has it been so enthralling to such a lot of, and for see you later? In exploring answers, Michael Seymour’s book ranges extensively over space and time and embraces art, archaeology, history, and literature. From Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar, by means of Strabo and Diodorus, to the Book of Revelation, Brueghel, Rembrandt, Voltaire, William Blake, and up to date interpreters like Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, and Gore Vidal, the creator brings to light a carnival of disparate sources dominated by powerful and intoxicating ideas, such as the Tower of Babel and the city of sin.

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