Aneignung und Abgrenzung

by Tonio Hölscher

The volume brings together the contributions of a meeting of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", held at the University of Heidelberg. The focus is on the antithesis between East and West between the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. Various aspects of culture, religion, science, worldview, economics, architecture and lifestyle are made with a view of this opposition to each other. Archaeologists, historians and philologists in the fields of Ancient Near East and Ancient Greece consider parallel each one of these sectors to make similarities and differences between them...