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

by Walter Burkert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067464364X
• ISBN13: 9780674643642
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"