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Ancient Mystery Cults
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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 ...
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Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions
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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.
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Greek Religion P
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Walter Burkert, John Raffan (Translator)
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 ...
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Homo Necans: Anthropology Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual
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Walter Burkert, Peter Bing (Translator)
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.
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The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
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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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Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
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Walter Burkert
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 ...
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Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece
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Walter Burkert, Peter Bing (Translator)
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 ...
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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual
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Walter Burkert
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Greek religion : archaic and classical
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Walter Burkert
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 ...
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Homo Necans: Interpretationen Altgriechischer Opferriten Und Mythen
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Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth
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Antike Mysterien. Funktionen Und Gehalt
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Walter Burkert
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Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche
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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 ...
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Vordenker Der Moderne. : Die Intellektuellen Im 19. Jahrhundert
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Christophe Charle
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Die Griechen Und Der Orient
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Walter Burkert
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Greek religion.
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Arktouros: Hellenic Studies Presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
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Glen W Bowersock (Editor), Walter Burkert (Editor), Michael C Putnam (Editor)
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Violent Origins
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Robert G Hamerton-Kelly (Editor), Rene Girard (Photographer), Walter Burkert (Photographer)
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Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism
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Walter Burkert, Edwin L Minar, Jr. (Translator)
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.
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Ansichten Griechischer Rituale: Geburtstags-Symposium Fur Walter Burkert, Castelen Bei Basel, 15. Bis 18. Marz 1996
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Walter Burkert
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Hymnen Der Alten Welt Im Kulturvergleich
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Walter Burkert (Editor), Fritz Stolz (Editor)
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Kleine Schriften VIII: Philosophica
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Walter Burkert, Karl-Heinz Stanzel (Editor), Thomas Alexander Szlezak (Editor)
This volume of Walter Burkert's "Kleine Schriften", edited by Thomas Alexander Szlezak and Karl-Heinz Stanzel, focuses on his writings on ancient philosophy.
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Kleine Schriften Zur Geschichte Der Antiken Philosophie
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Hermann Diels, Walter Burkert (Editor)
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Kleine Schriften VII: Tragica Et Historica
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Walter Burkert, Wolfgang Rosler (Editor)
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.
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Kleine Schriften III: Mystica, Orphica, Pythagorica
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Walter Burkert, Fritz Graf (Editor)
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.
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