Op = Op Vergeten volkeren. Verloren culturen op de kaart gezet. – MATYSZAK, Ph.,

Original title: Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World. ‘What have the Akkadians ever done for us? As it turns out, rather a lot, as Philip Matyszak reveals in this lively, handsomely produced study of peoples and tribes whose PR departments were a smidgeon less muscular than the Romans?. Their obscure names are woven into our language: we sing ?Land me safe on Canaan?s side?; we talk of oligarchs as ?rich as Croesus?; we quote the Assyrian coming down ?like the wolf on the fold?; and the aesthete?s go-to i…