Freedom in the Ancient World
- Title
- Freedom in the Ancient World
- Creator
- Herbert J. Muller
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- Herbert J. Muller frames the fall of Nineveh as a civilizational rupture. He writes that when the capital was “utterly destroyed” and the Assyrian kingdom “extinguished,” the Assyrians disappeared from history with unusual speed—“more quickly than any other prominent people before or after them.” In his narrative, what follows is a brief Chaldean interlude, but the obliteration of Assyria was so complete that even by Xenophon’s day the ruins passed unrecognized. Muller’s point is not just political collapse; it’s cultural erasure, the Assyrian name and memory slip from the lived historical record, leaving only later rediscoveries to reconstruct what had been the most feared power of the Near East.
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The Ancient World, Muller, Herbert J. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961, p. 97.
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- Item sets
- assyrians
