The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Revealing Antiquity)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (646 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0674643631 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 238 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Thomas (American Historical Review)An elegant and academically influential workThe Orientalizing Revolution can be enthusiastically recommended. --Carol G. BrilliantBurkert is consistently thorough and challengingWithout denying the role of innate talent, he shows that much of the Greek miracle grew from an openness to influences from other culturesHis careful scholarshiphas constructed the bridge that he set out to build. (Greece and Rome) . --Simon Hornblower (Times Literary Supplement)Burkert's The Orientalizing Revolution remains an outstanding, or rather the outstanding, contribution to the question of `Near Eastern influence on Greek culture in the Early Archaic Age
He tracks the migrant craftsmen who brought the Greeks new techniques and designs, the wandering seers and healers teaching magic and medicine, and the important Greek borrowings from Near Eastern poetry and myth. Burkert focuses on the "orientalizing" century 750-650 B.C., the period of Assyrian conquest, Phoenician commerce, and Greek exploration of both East and West, when not only eastern skills and images but also the Semitic art of writing was transmitted to Greece. Walter Burkert offers an argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East, Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony, in the Mediterranean". The rich and 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 neighbours. Drawing widey on archaeological, textual and historical evidence, he demonstrates that eastern models significantly affected Greek literature and religion in the H
The Ancient Greeks In Context First, let's make clear what Burkert does NOT say. This book does not argue that the Greeks are an offshoot of some middle eastern civilization, or that Greek genius was merely a late and relocated flowering of Egyptian or some other oriental genius. Burkert in no way detracts from the greatness and the uniqueness of the Greeks.What he does is remove them from their isolation. He does this by showing a number of points where the Greeks, in the early Ar. Bringing an end to the Eurocentric version of history David Livingstone This is a great book. Due to a number of trends in scholarshipon ancient history over the last two or three hundred years, thehistory of ancient Greece has been grossly distorted. The Near Eastern origin of much of the culture of ancient Greece was a recognized reality in ancient times. Until modern times, the foreign origin of ancient Greece according to ancient sources continued to be acknowledged, but that trend changed with the advent of the Europe. Five Stars Fantastic introduction into the assyrian/babylonian origin of Greece.