(P/B) THE ORIENTALIZING REVOLUTION

Παρουσίαση

The 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, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East - from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers - Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean." (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

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