The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age by Walter Burkert, Margaret E. Pinder

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

Walter Burkert, Margaret E. Pinder

225 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 to...

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