TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCants,William Faizi
TI  - Founding gods, inventing nations: conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam 
SN  - 9781400840069 (electronic bk.)
AV  - DS57 .M434 2012eb
U1  - 939/.40072 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Mythology, Middle Eastern
KW  - Greeks
KW  - Middle East
KW  - History
KW  - Romans
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - HISTORY / Ancient / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-166) and index; Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences
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ER  -