L'età neobabilonese

The study offers an up-to-date synthesis of the last phase of the Ancient Mesopotamia history (625-539 BC) on the basis of the most recently acquired documentary sources. Beginning with the critical analysis of Mesopotamian cuneiform sources, as well as the biblical and classical ones, the study reconstructs the political, social and economic history, giving emphasis to the royal ideology which oscillated between tradition and innovation. It also gives a general picture of Babylonian culture, underlining both the continuity with the ancient tradition and its survival into the Persian and Hellenistic ages.