John Manuel Cook
British classical archaeologist and ancient historian (1910–1994)
John Manuel Cook, FBA (1910–1994) was a British classical archaeologist. He was educated at Marlborough College, and went to King's College, Cambridge (1929–32).
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- [The milieu of the Persian court was one in which intellectual and artistic intercourse between representatives of the various satrapies flourished. The Persians themselves] “clearly … were not a people that we should call intellectual. They do not themselves seem to have had an inclination towards literature, medicine, or philosophical and scientific speculation.” Still, they provided a setting in which such speculation could be freely pursued... “what resulted from the ‘Pax Persica,’” says Cook, “was syncretism and cultural assimilation on a scale that had not previously been thinkable.”
- Cook, J. M. The Greeks in Ionia and the East. New York: Praeger Books, 1963. p. 204, 230. as quoted in The Shape of Ancient Thought_ Comparative - Thomas McEvilley
