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The orientalizing revolution: Near Eastern influence on Greek culture in the early archaic age

Walter Burkert c1992 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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  • 9780674643642 (paper)
  • 9780674643635 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1. "Who Are Public Workers": The Migrant Craftsmen (page 9)
    • Historical Background (page 9)
    • Oriental Products in Greece (page 14)
    • Writing and Literature in the Eighth Century (page 25)
    • The Problem of Loan-Words (page 33)
  • 2. "A Seer or a Healer": Magic and Medicine (page 41)
    • "Craftsmen of the Sacred": Mobility and Family Structure (page 41)
    • Hepatoscopy (page 46)
    • Foundation Deposits (page 53)
    • Purification (page 55)
    • Spirits of the Dead and Black Magic (page 65)
    • Substitute Sacrifice (page 73)
    • Asclepius and Asgelatas (page 75)
    • Ecstatic Divination (page 79)
    • Lamashtu, Lamia, and Gorgo (page 82)
  • 3. "Or Also a Godly Singer": Akkadian and Early Greek Literature (page 88)
    • From Atrahasis to the "Deception of Zeus" (page 88)
    • Complaint in Heaven: Ishtar and Aphrodite (page 96)
    • The Overpopulated Earth (page 100)
    • Seven against Thebes (page 106)
    • Common Style and Stance in Oriental and Greek Epic (page 114)
    • Fables (page 120)
    • Magic and Cosmogony (page 124)
  • Conclusion (page 128)
  • Abbreviations (page 131)
  • Bibliography (page 135)
  • Notes (page 153)
  • Index of Greek Words (page 219)
  • General Index (page 221)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CW 87.6 (Jul. - Aug. 1994): 517 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4351583
AHR 99.1 (Feb. 1994): 202-203 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2166192
ARIO 4.2 (Fall 1996): 137-147 http://www.jstor.org/stable/20163622
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