Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond
Synopsis
This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars-archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians-to reflect on how objects, ideas, and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remembered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized, or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures, and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.
Chapters
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Foreword
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Preliminary Considerations
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Mesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia
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Case Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard
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Images of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of TransformationThe Case of Persepolis
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ArtaserseAn Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages?
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When Imitation Became RealityThe Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin
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Ye Go to Thy AbzuHow Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong
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"Babylon's Last Bacchanal"Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema
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He Who Saw the StarsRetelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Evil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology of the BeyondAn Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981)
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The Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular CultureThe Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil
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Gilgamesh, The (Super)Hero
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Mystery Literature and Assyriology
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Ancient Aliens, Modern CosmologiesZecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth
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The (In)visibility of Archaeology
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Imagining the Tower of Babel in the Twenty-First CenturyIs a New Interpretation of the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible?
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Athletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near EastRepresentation and Reconstruction
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Afterword. Memory and MemoriesFrom the Ancient Near East to the Modern West
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Contributors
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Subject Index
Published
March 13, 2020
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