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The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age more books like this

by Walter Burkert, Margaret E Pinder (Translator)

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. 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, ...

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