The Allure of the Ancient: Receptions of the Ancient Middle East, Ca. 1600-1800

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How was the ancient Middle East—including Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia— imagined and employed for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America, circa 1600–1800 ? Contents Editors’ Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 1 Introduction 2 Images of Babylon in Early Modern Europe 3 Between Babylon and Rome: The Panorama of Constantinople (1662)  4 Collapsing Identities of Ptolemaic Queens in Early Modern Rome 5 Reading the East 6 Freemasons and Platonism 7 Zoroaster’s French Moment 8 Ancient and Modern 9 Representing Egypt in French Enlightenment Musical Theatre 10 From Tragic Hero to Creole Businesswoman 11 Babylonians in Sixteenth-Century Mexico 12 Egypt and Babylon in Eighteenth-Century European Histories of Astronomy 13 What Was Oriental Studies in Early Modern Europe? 14 On Religious Systems Index Nominum