Kings Sargon and Sennacherib, Father and Son

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yazar:

Stephanie Dalley

Yayın yılı:

2007

Yayıncı:

Oxford University PressOxford

Dil:

en

Abstract At the time when Sennacherib became king of Assyria, inheriting his father’s throne in 704 bc, Midas, the legendary Phrygian king, whose touch turned all to gold, ruled in Gordion, and Hezekiah was king in Jerusalem. The Iliad and the Odyssey were at an advanced stage of composition, but may not have reached the form in which we now know them; and the Greek language had recently begun to be written in a script adapted from the Phoenician alphabet. In the cities of Cyprus, kings with Greek names ruled. Damascus, previously head of a very powerful kingdom literate in Aramaic, had come under direct rule from Assyria some thirty years earlier.

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