Literary Representations of Assyria

This book examines popular and scholarly representations of ancient Assyria through both ancient and modern sources.

The ancient sources include Babylonian, Biblical and Egyptian, while the modern sources include the well-publicized excavations of Nineveh in the 19th century, which captured the popular imagination of Christian Europe.

In order to interrogate these representations, the reader is taken back to examine the scholarly and cultural allegiances of the ancient Greek and native Egypt...