Preface Introduction 1. "Who Are Public Workers": The Migrant Craftsmen Historical Background Oriental Products in Greece Writing and Literature in the Eighth Century The Problem of Loan-Words 2. "A Seer or a Healer": Magic and Medicine "Craftsmen of the Sacred": Mobility and Family Structure Hepatoscopy Foundation Deposits Purification Spirits of the Dead and Black Magic Substitute Sacrifice Asclepius and Asgelatas Ecstatic Divination Lamashtu, Lamia, and Gorgo 3. "Or Also a Godly Singer": Akkadian and Early Greek Literature From Atrahasis to the "Deception of Zeus" Complaint in Heaven: Ishtar and Aphrodite The Overpopulated Earth Seven against Thebes Common Style and Stance in Oriental and Greek Epic Fables Magic and Cosmogony Conclusion Abbreviations Bibliography Notes Index of Greek Words General Index
Walter Burkert was Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Zurich.
Brilliant...[Burkert] is consistently thorough and
challenging...Without denying the role of innate talent, he shows
that much of the Greek miracle grew from an openness to influences
from other cultures...[His] careful scholarship...has constructed
the bridge that he set out to build.
*American Historical Review*
An elegant and academically influential work...The Orientalizing
Revolution can be enthusiastically recommended.
*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.
*Greece and Rome*
This thought provoking work is an updated translation of Burkert's
Die orientlisierende Epoche in der griechischen Religion und
Literature, 1984...It is refreshing to see a classical scholar
follow in the footsteps of eminent Near Eastern scholars such as
Cyrus Gordon and Michael Astour who have long argued for
interconnections in the ancient Mediterranean world.
*Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin*
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