This edition collects all chronicle literature of ancient Mesopotamia from the early second millenium to Seleucid times. The volume, which incorporates revisions and additions by the author and a transcription of the cuneiform, includes every example of Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian historiographic literature, and magisterial essays on the genre and on Mesopotamian historiography in general.
Jean-Jacques Glassner (1944) is a French Assyriologist, Professor at CNRS (“Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique”), Paris, and an author of various books on Mesopotamian civilization.
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