Download or read book Ancestor of the West written by Jean Bottéro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-06-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the same time Ancestor of the West reminds us that these cultures were precursors of our own precisely because they possessed an intelligence that we still recognize. The ancients, even in their earliest writings, thought like us."--BOOK JACKET.