Babylon the biography of a metropolis
"Babylon often appears more myth than history. Purportedly the site of the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel, its infamous presence in the Bible has made it a byword for sinful decadence. But Babylon was a real place teeming with life, a bustling mega-city on the Euphrates where schoolteachers,...
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New York, NY :
Pegasus Books, Ltd.
2026.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Pronunciation guide
- Babylonian periods and dynasties
- Introduction: good morning Babylong
- Out of eden
- Murky beginnings
- Will this man ever die?
- War-what is it good for?
- I am the sun of Babylong
- I fought the Law...
- Where the streets have no name
- In our living and in our dying
- You learn something new every day
- Public dreams and private myths
- To boldly go
- Dust storms
- The great revival
- A band of brothers
- Keeping enemies close
- Babylon for the Babylonians!
- Much ado about marduk
- Men of straw
- the Yoke of Assur
- Imperial expansion
- The mother of all cities
- Accidental empire
- Belsazzar's feast
- End times
- Epilogue: Babylon the Great is fallen
