Thorkild Jacobsen

This book is an attempt to understand the view which theancient peoples of Egypt and Mesopotamia took of the worldin which they lived. They were the most civilized people oftheir time; and they have left us a rich and varied literaturewhich has been deciphered to a large extent during the...

CHAPTER I MYTH AND REALITY IF WE look for "speculative thought" in the documents of the ancients, we shall be forced to admit that there is very little indeed in our written records which deserves the name of "thought" in the strict sense of that term. There are very few passages which show the...