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

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."

Author: Walter Burkert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 08/11/1998
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.21h x 5.50w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9780674643642
ISBN10: 067464364X
BISAC Categories:
- History | Ancient | Greece
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
- History | Middle East | General