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

Walter Burkert

Harvard University Press

1998

238 páginas

7h 56m

ISBN-10: 067464364X

The 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 neighbours. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that view, pointing toward a more 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".