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

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

Paperback

Series: Revealing Antiquity, Book 5

Literary CriticismAncient GreeceGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 067464364X
ISBN13: 9780674643642
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Aug 11 1998
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.21
Language: English
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 hegemony in the Mediterranean.

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