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Hammurabi of Babylon (Paperback)
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Hammurabi of Babylon (Paperback)
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Hammurabi was the sixth king of ancient Babylon and also its
greatest. Expanding the role and influence of the Babylonian
city-state into an imperium that crushed its rivals and dominated
the entire fertile plain of Mesopotamia, Hammurabi (who ruled c.
1792-1750 BCE) transformed a minor kingdom into the regional
superpower of its age. But this energetic monarch, whose
geopolitical and military strategies were unsurpassed in his time,
was more than just a war-leader or empire-builder. Renowned for his
visionary Code of Laws, Hammurabi's famous codex - written on a
stele in Akkadian, and publicly displayed so that all citizens
could read it - pioneered a new kind of lawmaking. The Code's 282
specific legal injunctions, alleged to have been divinely granted
by the god Marduk, remain influential to this day, and offer the
historian fascinating parallels with the biblical Ten Commandments.
Dominique Charpin is one of the most distinguished modern scholars
of ancient Babylon. In this fresh and engaging appraisal of one of
antiquity's iconic figures, he shows that Hammurabi, while
certainly one of the most able rulers in the whole of prehistory,
was also responsible for pivotal developments in the history of
civilization.
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