Wed 10/7: Babylon
Section outline
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Reading
- British Museum, “Babylonia, an introduction,” in Smarthistory, August 29, 2016, https://smarthistory.org/babylonia-an-introduction/
- S. German, “Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi,” Smarthistory, August 8, 2015, https://smarthistory.org/hammurabi-2/
- M. van de Mieroop, “Hammurabi’s Babylon,” in HANE, 118–27
- Optional: M. Heinz, “The Ur III, Old Babylonian, and Kassite Empires,” in CAANE, 713–21 (the rest)
- Optional: M. Liverani, “Hammurabi of Babylon,” in ANE, 240–55