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

Author/Contributor(s):	Burkert, Walter ; Pinder, Margaret E
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Date:	08/11/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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."