josh • read

took me a bit to get through (some parts felt heavily academic) but learned a good bit. an attempt to untangle the concept of the “west” and how most of the things pop culture attributes to rome, greece (and the enlightenment) emerged from a messy petri dish of civilizations in the middle east and mediterranean. a great high level walkthrough of the bronze age through the classical era. Some really nicely written descriptions of how life felt