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ISBN: 9780631156246 - Greek Religion Greek Religion
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0631156240  ISBN13: 9780631156246
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Blackwell Publishers
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Mar 1987
This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation. A clearly structured and readable survey for classical scholars and students, it will also be generally welcomed as the best modern account of any polytheistic... More

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ISBN: 9780520058750 - Homo Necans Homo Necans
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0520058755  ISBN13: 9780520058750
Publisher: University of California Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Nov 1986
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is... More

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ISBN: 9780674033870 - Ancient Mystery Cults Ancient Mystery Cults
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0674033876  ISBN13: 9780674033870
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Jul 1989
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices. Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of... More

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ISBN: 9780674014893 - Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0674014898  ISBN13: 9780674014893
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Nov 2004
This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Ninevah, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more... More

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ISBN: 9780674643642 - The Orientalizing Revolution The Orientalizing Revolution
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 067464364X  ISBN13: 9780674643642
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Oct 1995
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... More

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ISBN: 9780674175709 - Creation of the Sacred Creation of the Sacred
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0674175700  ISBN13: 9780674175709
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Feb 1998
Sacrifice is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world's... More

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ISBN: 9780674023994 - Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0674023994  ISBN13: 9780674023994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 May 2007
Traverses the ancient world's three great centres of cultural exchange - Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Persepolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a Near Eastern... More

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ISBN: 9780226080857 - Savage Energies Savage Energies
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0226080854  ISBN13: 9780226080857
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Aug 2001
We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm... More

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ISBN: 9780674539181 - Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism
Walter Burkert

ISBN10: 0674539184  ISBN13: 9780674539181
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jan 1974
For the first English edition of his distinguished study, "Weisheit und Wissenschaft: Studien zu Pythagoras, Philoloas und Platon," Mr. Burkert has extensively revised both text and notes, taking into account additional literature that has... More

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ISBN: 9783525252789 - Kleine Schriften V Kleine Schriften V
Walter Burkert Fritz Graf

ISBN10: 3525252781  ISBN13: 9783525252789
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Apr 2011