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While philosophers like Socrates had to survive on payments they received from their students, Babylonian scholars under the Persians received full support from temples that themselves relied on royal munificence.
Yunan-Pers Savaşları
To many scholars Xerxes' losses there were inconsequential and unimportant (Briant 2002a: 542) and life went on as usual in Persepolis (Kuhrt 2007a: 239). To the Persians it was not a big deal. The Greeks, however, saw their victory as the result of their political and cultural superiority and started a long tradition of contrasting the west to the east, a process of self-definition often called Orientalism.
Babil'in Asma Bahçeleri
The lack of clear archaeological proof is reinforced by a silence in the most eloquent ancient written sources about Babylon. No Neo-Babylonian building inscription mentions gardens, nor does the cuneiform Description of Babylon, a set of five tablets that list Babylon's temples, gates, streets, and so on.
The ziggurat of Marduk was so massive that it inspired the biblical tale of the tower of Babel and, through it, western imagination until today.
Herodotus imagined there had been a sequence of world empires in Asia before the Persian one that the Greeks confronted. He knew about Assyria and Persia, but in between them was a void. This he filled with the Medes, and thereby he created a phantom empire whose image is still widely accepted today.
A practice repeatedly attested in the Neo-Assyrian period was the appointment of a substitute king. When omens predicted that the king's life was in danger, a man was selected to replace him temporarily and the true king went into hiding, to reappear only once the danger had passed (and the substitute king probably was murdered).
Assurbanipal took personal pride in his library; he made statements such as: “The wisdom of Ea, the art of the learned priests, the knowledge of the sages, and that which provides solace to the great gods, I (Assurbanipal) wrote on tablets according to texts from Assyria and Babylonia, and I reviewed and checked.”
Assyrians often appointed eunuchs in high government positions so that there was no possibility that fathers could pass on their offices to their sons.
It is impossible for any historian of the ancient Near East to ignore the biblical narrative – the text is too powerful in cultural consciousness. It is an important source, and unique, as it presents reactions to the great empires of Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia, even if they were redacted or even composed much later. It contains a memory of these dominant empires from the point of view of the victims.