The mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon : an elusive world wonder traced / Stephanie Dalley.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: xviii, 279 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780199662265
- 0199662266
- Hanging Garden of Babylon
- 935.5
Contents:
Drawing a blank in Babylon -- Classical writers and their testimony -- Three pictures, and Archimedes -- Sennacherib's great invention -- Engineering for water management -- Confusion of names -- The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden -- Symbolism and imitators -- Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC -- Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-268) and index.
Drawing a blank in Babylon -- Classical writers and their testimony -- Three pictures, and Archimedes -- Sennacherib's great invention -- Engineering for water management -- Confusion of names -- The unrivalled palace, the queen, and the garden -- Symbolism and imitators -- Defeat and revival : Nineveh after 612 BC -- Appendix. The section of prism inscription describing the palace and garden.