About this title: 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, Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony, in the Mediterranean". Burkert focuses on the "orientalizing" century 750-650 B.C., the period of Assyrian conquest, Phoenician commerce, and Greek exploration of both East and ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674643635ISBN:0674643631
Description: Fine. A Fine hardback First Edition First Printing in a Fine Dust Jacket. 8vo. ix, 225 pp. Map and 8 figures (photographs, drawings). Endnotes, bibliography, index. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780674643635ISBN:0674643631
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Nice clean hardcover book in dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 238 p. Revealing Antiquity, 5. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARVARD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780674643642ISBN:067464364X
Description: New. 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 neighbors. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that distorted view, repla... read more
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