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The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Revealing Antiquity)

By Walter Burkert

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
067464364X, 9780674643642, 0674643631, 9780674643635
LCC
DF78 .B8513 1992
Open Library ID
OL1707430M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9898474 bytes)
Series
Revealing Antiquity 5
Pages
225\240
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Религиоведение;История религий;История религии Дре

Description

The culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbours. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that view, pointing toward a more balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East - from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers - Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean".

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