@inbook{f7b383d72a414bcb8112b6b3f6219c96,
title = "Persian “Enlightenment”",
abstract = "Far too rarely, scholars have accorded importance to the fact that the early days of Greek intense reflection on “God and the world,” i.e. the beginnings of a philosophy of nature, science, and analytical geometry, as well as important progress in the disciplines of geography and ethnography, occurred in the shadow of the rise of the Persian empire. This chapter tries to explain the historical and intellectual background of that development, as well as the methodological problems connected with our case study, the so-called Pre-Socratics and their possible Ancient Near Eastern forerunners.",
keywords = "615 History and Archaeology",
author = "Sebastian Fink and Josef Wieseh{\"o}fer",
year = "2021",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1002/9781119071860.ch91",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-119-17428-8",
volume = "2",
series = "Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World",
publisher = "Wiley Blackwell",
pages = "1325--1341",
editor = "Bruno Jacobs and Robert Rollinger",
booktitle = "A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire",
address = "United Kingdom",
}