Mesopotamian Chronicles: 19 (Writings from the Ancient World) - Hardcover

This English translation of Glassner's "Chroniques Mesopotamiennes" (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1993) collects all chronicle literature of ancient Mesopotamia from the early second millenium to Seleucid times. The volume, which incorporates revisions and additions by the author and a transcription of the cuneiform, includes every example of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian historiographic literature, and magisterial essays on the genre and on Mesopotamian historiography in general.

Jean-Jacques Glassner is a Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research.