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The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
The splendid 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 neighbors. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a 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."
Book Details
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publish Date: Aug 11st, 1998
- Pages: 238
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.21in - 5.50in - 0.67in - 0.62lb
- EAN: 9780674643642
- Categories: • Ancient - Greece• Ancient and Classical• Middle East - General
About the Author
Burkert, Walter: - Walter Burkert was Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Zurich.
Praise for this book
Brilliant...[Burkert] is consistently thorough and challenging...Without denying the role of innate talent, he shows that much of the Greek miracle grew from an openness to influences from other cultures...[His] careful scholarship...has constructed the bridge that he set out to build.--Carol G. Thomas "American Historical Review"
An elegant and academically influential work...The Orientalizing Revolution can be enthusiastically recommended.--Simon Hornblower "Times Literary Supplement"
Burkert's The Orientalizing Revolution remains an outstanding, or rather the outstanding, contribution to the question of `Near Eastern influence on Greek culture in the Early Archaic Age.-- "Greece and Rome"
This thought provoking work is an updated translation of Burkert's Die orientlisierende Epoche in der griechischen Religion und Literature, 1984...It is refreshing to see a classical scholar follow in the footsteps of eminent Near Eastern scholars such as Cyrus Gordon and Michael Astour who have long argued for interconnections in the ancient Mediterranean world.--Mark W. Chavalas "Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin" (1/1/1997 12:00:00 AM)