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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674014898
ISBN-139780674014893
eBay Product ID (ePID)30510937
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBabylon, Memphis, Persepolis : Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture
SubjectAncient / General, Europe / Greece (See Also Ancient / Greece), Ancient / Greece
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
AuthorWalter Burkert
Subject AreaHistory
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2004-047412
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsBabylon, Memphis, Persepolis is a unique survey of the thought-world of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. There is an insight in almost every sentence, a challenge in every paragraph, and a lifetime of study in every chapter. The author manages this without losing his sense of wonder, and this is the greatest achievement of the book., It is a fascinating and magisterial account of just how far we have moved away from Greek exceptionalism without in any way denigrating the achievement of the Greeks...The Greek miracle lay not in a Hellenism that was exclusively Greek, but rather in its transforming embrace of Near Eastern myth and thought. No one else ever achieved what the Greeks achieved, but they did not do it alone. And Walter Burkert is the modern magus who has brought us this revelation., Mr. Burkert is something of a mage himself; not only a 'wise man' and astonishingly learned, but a superb initiator into mysteries gleaned from recondite sources in dozens of dead languages. By bringing these lost or forgotten texts into vivid conjunction, he summons the past to life in all its unexpected intricacy. He shows us that the Greeks, whom we thought we knew, were stranger, and more wonderful, than we could have suspected., In this elegantly written, meticulously argued, and honest book, Burkert not only summarizes and adds to our knowledge of the how, why, and what of cultural influences on Greece from the Near East, Egypt, and Persia, mainly during the Archaic and Classical Periods, but also demonstrates to his readers the right way to study this fascinating topic. In other words, the work provides a methodological model for all who wish to pursue its subject., Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture reflects its origin as a lecture series and reads smoothly, with Burkert's prodigious scholarship made manifest in the 30 pages of endnotes. For those unconvinced by Bernal, this wide-ranging and scholarly demonstration that Greek culture did not emerge in isolation might just be the right book.
Dewey Decimal880/.9001
Table Of ContentIntroduction 1 Alphabetic Writing 2 Orientalizing Features in Homer 3 Oriental Wisdom Literature and Cosmogony 4 Orpheus and Egypt 5 The Advent of the Magi Abbreviations Ancient Sources in Various Translations Bibliography Notes Index
SynopsisTraverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange - Babylonian Nineveh, Egyptian Memphis, and Iranian Perseolis - to situate classical Greece in its proper historical place, at the Western margin of a more comprehensive Near Eastern- Aegean cultural community., At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers 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 the first millennium B.C.
LC Classification NumberPA3070.B75 2004
