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The message of Homer and New Assyria ..................................... 345
The emergence of the new empire in the East......................................................345
Tiglath-Pileser III.................................................................................................347
Shalmaneser V and Sargon II...............................................................................349
Sennacherib and Esarhaddon ...............................................................................354
Ashurbanipal ........................................................................................................355
The Empire and the Homeric legacy....................................................................360
Social and political processes in the Greek world................................................368
The experience of the Archaic Age......................................................................374
Greek merchants and mercenaries in the East......................................................380
In brief..................................................................................................................401
Summary and Conclusions ............................................................ 409
Bibliography..................................................................................... 437
English Summary ............................................................................ 497
Index ................................................................................................. 519
