by Walter Burkert
translated by Margaret E. Pinder
Harvard University Press, 1992
Paper: 978-0-674-64364-2 | Cloth: 978-0-674-64363-5
Library of Congress Classification DF78.B8513 1992
Dewey Decimal Classification 938

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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.”

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