Today I want to applaud the careful work of Karen Rhea Nemet-Nejat, author of Daily Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (which I’ll call DLIAM after this for the sake of brevity), part of Daily Life series from Greenwood Press. I mentioned the series awhile back, and said I found the quality of the books in the [...]
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writer’s bookshelf: daily life in ancient mesopotamia
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments · book review
Tags: assyria·daily life·mesopotamia·sumerian
uneven
September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · book review, research
Drat! I was all ready to sing the praises of The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series as a useful tool for writers, having read the volume on life in Chaucer’s England by Forgeng and McLean (quite readable but detailed), but the books on Elizabethan England and the Vikings (yes, that’s two separate books) don’t [...]
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