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THE ORIENTALIZING REVOLUTION
NEAR EASTERN INFLUENCE ON GREEK CULTURE IN THE EARLY ARCHAIC AGE |
By: |
Walter Burkert, Walter Burkert (Trans), Margaret E. Pinder (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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ISBN 10: |
067464364X |
ISBN 13: |
9780674643642 |
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Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
2 October, 1995 |
Series: |
Revealing Antiquity No. 5 |
Pages: |
238 |
Translated from: |
German |
Description: |
The culture of the ancient Greeks has often been seen as owing practically nothing to its neighbours. This work argues against this view, and, focusing on the period between 750 and 650 BC, demonstrates that Eastern models significantly affected Greek literature and religion. |
Synopsis: |
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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5 halftones, 3 line illustration, 1 map |
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US |
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Harvard University Press |
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