The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age Paperback - 1998
by Walter Burkert; Margaret E. Pinder (Translator)
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The rich and 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, replacing it with a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East, Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean". Burkert focuses on the "orientalizing" century 750-650 B.C., the period of Assyrian conquest, Phoenician commerce, and Greek exploration of both East and West, when not only eastern skills and images but also the Semitic art of writing were transmitted to Greece. He tracks the migrant craftsmen who brought the Greeks new techniques and designs, the wandering seers and healers teaching magic and medicine, and the important Greek borrowings from Near Eastern poetry and myth. Drawing widely on archaeological, textual, and historical evidence, he demonstrates that eastern models significantly affected Greek literature and religion in the Homeric age.
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- Title The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
- Author Walter Burkert; Margaret E. Pinder (Translator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 3rd Paperback
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-08-11
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780674643642 / 067464364X
- Weight 0.62 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.21 x 5.5 x 0.67 in (20.85 x 13.97 x 1.70 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Dewey Decimal Code 938
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