May 1st 2019

Assyrian Imperial Power and How to Oppose It

@ Oriental Institute - University of Chicago

1155 E 58th St, Chicago, IL 60637

Opening Wednesday, May 1st, from 7PM - 9PM

Karen Radner, LMU Munich, University College, London

Assyrian Imperial Power and How to Oppose It

Once the ancient kingdom of Assyria became the dominant power of the Middle East in the early first millennium BC, attitudes and preferences of the imperial centre in today’s northern Iraq shaped lives and lifestyles between the Nile and the Caspian Sea. What made the Assyrian Empire so successful? And was it possible to oppose this exemplary lowland predatory state?

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