Scholarly Commons (University of Pennsylvania) · 1980 · 32 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesClassicsHistoryAncient HistoryGreek HistoryGreek LiteratureAncient GreeceAncient Greek VocabularyAncient Near Eastern CivilizationsGreek HistoriographyHebrew LanguageAncient Greek LanguageAncient Greek Writing SystemNeo-assyrian EmpireNeo-assyrian PeriodNeo-assyrian Reliefs
The first part of this dissertation seeks to determine the historical context within which Greek speakers first encountered the West Asian state of Assur and began to apply its name (in the Greek form "'A(sigma)(sigma)(upsilon)(rho)(iota)(eta)") to all of Western Asia. The second part explores