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1	Ancient Mystery Cults more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist 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 Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years. This book is neither a history nor a survey but a ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $15.18! \| SVS
2	Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist Sacrifice--whether it be the sacrifice of virgins, circumcision, or the renunciation of what is most valued--is essential to all religions. This book explores the possibility of natural religion and raises serious questions about the ultimate reasons for, and the meaning of, human religiousness. see all copies from $16.87! new only from $18.14! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Greek Religion P more books like this by Walter Burkert, John Raffan (Translator) add to wishlist In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable survey for students and scholars, it will be ... see all copies from $19.75! new only from $29.50! \| SVS
4	Homo Necans: Anthropology Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual more books like this by Walter Burkert, Peter Bing (Translator) add to wishlist 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 examined in Walter Burkert's famous study. see all copies from $26.55! new only from $33.87! \| SVS
5	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) add to wishlist 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, ... see all copies from $18.43! new only from $18.43! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist This book 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 more comprehensive Near Eastern-Aegean cultural community that emerged in the Bronze Age and expanded westward in ... see all copies from $12.49! new only from $12.65! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece more books like this by Walter Burkert, Peter Bing (Translator) add to wishlist We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to ... see all copies from $28.35! new only from $28.35! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist see all copies from $13.72! new only from $26.34! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Greek religion : archaic and classical more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist 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 religious system. The text builds up an impressive and coherent picture of the current state of knowledge ... see all copies from $24.72! new only from $24.72! \| SVS
10	Homo Necans: Interpretationen Altgriechischer Opferriten Und Mythen more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist see all copies from $89.94! new only from $89.94!
11	Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist see all copies from $24.50!
12	Antike Mysterien. Funktionen Und Gehalt by Walter Burkert add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! new only from $57.58!
13	Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in 1977, it has now been translated into English with the assistance of the author himself. A clearly structured and readable survey for students and scholars, it will be ... see all copies from $24.28!
14	Vordenker Der Moderne. : Die Intellektuellen Im 19. Jahrhundert by Christophe Charle add to wishlist see all copies from $24.32! first editions
15	Die Griechen Und Der Orient by Walter Burkert add to wishlist see all copies from $31.57! new only from $48.37!
16	Greek religion. more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist see all copies from $74.00! first editions
17	Arktouros: Hellenic Studies Presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday more books like this by Glen W Bowersock (Editor), Walter Burkert (Editor), Michael C Putnam (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $149.95! new only from $298.13!
18	Violent Origins more books like this by Robert G Hamerton-Kelly (Editor), Rene Girard (Photographer), Walter Burkert (Photographer) add to wishlist see all copies from $148.05!
19	Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism more books like this by Walter Burkert, Edwin L Minar, Jr. (Translator) add to wishlist 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 appeared since 1962. see all copies from $114.73! new only from $114.73! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Ansichten Griechischer Rituale: Geburtstags-Symposium Fur Walter Burkert, Castelen Bei Basel, 15. Bis 18. Marz 1996 more books like this by Walter Burkert add to wishlist see all copies from $74.95! first editions
21	Hymnen Der Alten Welt Im Kulturvergleich more books like this by Walter Burkert (Editor), Fritz Stolz (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $32.30! new only from $32.30!
22	Kleine Schriften VIII: Philosophica by Walter Burkert, Karl-Heinz Stanzel (Editor), Thomas Alexander Szlezak (Editor) add to wishlist This volume of Walter Burkert's "Kleine Schriften", edited by Thomas Alexander Szlezak and Karl-Heinz Stanzel, focuses on his writings on ancient philosophy. see all copies from $131.30! new only from $131.30!
23	Kleine Schriften Zur Geschichte Der Antiken Philosophie more books like this by Hermann Diels, Walter Burkert (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $93.60! new only from $93.60!
24	Kleine Schriften VII: Tragica Et Historica by Walter Burkert, Wolfgang Rosler (Editor) add to wishlist The edition of Walter Burkert's "Opuscula" continues with volume VII, which contains contributions on the topic of Greek tragedy and historiography. The introductory essay on Greek tragedy and sacraficial ritual is particularly well-known. see all copies from $100.10! new only from $100.10!
25	Kleine Schriften III: Mystica, Orphica, Pythagorica by Walter Burkert, Fritz Graf (Editor) add to wishlist This volume of Walter Burkert's "Kleine Schriften", edited by Fritz Graf, collects his articles on Orphism and Pythagoreanism; it is the first of several volumes that focusses on Burkert's religious studies. see all copies from $120.90! new only from $120.90!

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