Title The orientalizing revolution : Near Eastern influence on Greek culture in the early archaic age / Walter Burkert ; translated by Margaret E. Pinder and Walter Burkert

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations Series Revealing antiquity ; 5 Revealing antiquity ; 5. Contents "Who are public workers" : the migrant craftsmen. Historical background ; Oriental products in Greece ; Writing and literature in the eighth century ; The problem of loan-words -- "A seer or a healer" : magic and medicine. "Craftsmen of the sacred" : mobility and family structure ; Hepatoscopy ; Foundation deposits ; Purification ; Spirits of the dead and black magic ; Substitute sacrifice ; Asclepius and Asgelatas ; Ecstatic divination ; Lamashtu, Lamia, and Gorgo -- "Or also a godly singer" : Akkadian and early Greek literature. From Atrahasis to the "Deception of Zeus" ; Complaint in heaven : Ishtar and Aphrodite ; The overpopulated earth ; Seven against Thebes ; Common style and stance in Oriental and Greek epic ; Fables ; Magic and cosmogony Summary 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 Analysis Culture History Greece Notes Translation of: Die orientalisierende Epoche in der griechischen Religion und Literatur Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-152) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Religion. Culture -- history Religion Literature -- history religion (discipline) Religion Civilization Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences Griechisch Literatur Religion Klassieke oudheid. Oosterse wereld. Historia antiga -- grecia (evolucao) SUBJECT Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041 Greece -- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92001056 Subject Grecia antica -- Storia -- Sec. 7. A.C. Greece Alter Orient Babylonien Griechenland Altertum Griechisch. Form Electronic book ISBN 0674643631 9780674643635 067464364X 9780674643642

Other Titles Orientalisierende Epoche in der griechischen Religion und Literatur. English

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