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

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

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Main Author: Burkert, Walter, 1931-2015 (Author)

Other Authors: Pinder, Margaret E.

Format: Book

Language: English
German

Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1992.

Series: Revealing antiquity ; 5.

Subjects:

Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.
Greece > Civilization > Middle Eastern influences.

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Call Number: DF78 .B85 1992

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Table of Contents:
  • "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
  • "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
  • "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.