Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : : Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture / / Walter Burkert.
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 Perse...
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Burkert, Walter, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis : Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture / Walter Burkert. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2007] ©2007 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. In concise and inviting fashion, Walter Burkert lays out the essential evidence for this ongoing reinterpretation of Greek culture. In particular, he points to the critical role of the development of writing in the ancient Near East, from the achievement of cuneiform in the Bronze Age to the rise of the alphabet after 1000 B.C. From the invention and diffusion of alphabetic writing, a series of cultural encounters between "Oriental" and Greek followed. Burkert details how the Assyrian influences of Phoenician and Anatolian intermediaries, the emerging fascination with Egypt, and the Persian conquests in Ionia make themselves felt in the poetry of Homer and his gods, in the mythic foundations of Greek cults, and in the first steps toward philosophy. A journey through the fluid borderlines of the Near East and Europe, with new and shifting perspectives on the cultural exchanges these produced, this book offers a clear view of the multicultural field upon which the Greek heritage that formed Western civilization first appeared. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674262447?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674262447 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674262447/original |
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