The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age

ISBN-13: 9780674643642 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 238 str.

Walter Burkert; Margaret E. Pinder

Opis

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.