Thomas Yaeger's Blog

A radical exploration of the ancient origins of philosophical thought. Much of the evidence for the long history of philosophy never features in the modern academic curriculum. My books are available from major retailers, including Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and also direct from Smashwords. Not available from Amazon.

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Greece and the cultural Impact of the Assyrian Empire

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In 'The Threshold in Ancient Assyria' I discussed Pauline Albenda's work on pavement slab designs, which seem to have be...
Saturday, 6 October 2018

Bringing the Divine to Earth. Writing to the Poet Leona Esther Medlin

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I wrote to Leona Esther Medlin on the 26th of January 2018, and headed the letter, ' After the Bronze Age Wreck'. The letter i...
Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Time to Move On (Writing to Josephine Quinn)

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A response to the article 'Time to Move On', published in the TLS in September 2018. Dear Dr. Quinn, Eleanor Robson refe...
Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Symmetry and Asymmetry in the Iconography of the Ancient Near East

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Symmetry and Asymmetry I first noticed a regularity (and accompanying irregularities) in images from the ANE a long time ago, and ment...
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Thomas Yaeger
Thomas Yaeger studied Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations and Languages at both University College, London, and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Yaeger specialized in the text corpus of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. He is the author of five books: the first is 'The Sacred History of Being' (2015), the second is 'J.G. Frazer and the Platonic Theory of Being' (2016). His third and fourth books - 'Understanding Ancient Thought' (2017) and 'Man and the Divine' (2018), explore further patterns of thought in antiquity. His fifth book is Echoes of Eternity’ (2020). Yaeger tweets regularly on ancient history and philosophy, with the Twitter ID: @rotorvator. His books are available (in eBook format) from Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Blio, Walmart, Smashwords, and other retailers.
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