Books written by Walter Burkert

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  Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism

  Erwin Pfeiffer , Studien zum antiken Sternglauben ( Leipzig , 1916 ) . Philip : J. A. Philip , Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism ( Toronto : Univ . Toronto Pr . , 1966 ) . Rathmann : Walter Rathmann , Quaestiones Pythagoreae Orphicae ...

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  Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

  ... κατά Γλαυκώπιον " Έρση [ oύνεκ ' Αθηναίης ιερήν ανελύσατο κίστην [ δεσποίνης On TraukórioV see Pfeiffer on Callim . fr . 238.11 ; on Athena's lamp see Paus . 1.26.6 f .; Strabo 9 p . 396 ; R. Pfeiffer , Ausgew .

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  Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

  ... strongest youths and pursued the women and girls with battlecries and a specific ecstatic dance , out of the mountains and on to and testimonia is , however , most uncertain ; cf. R. Pfeiffer , Ausgew . Schriften ( 1960 ) , 30–33 .

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  Burkert

  191.56 and Pfeiffer ad loc .; Lyk . 482 with Schol .; etc. 2W . Immerwahr , Die Kulte und Mythen Arkadiens ( 1891 ) , 1-24 ; Nilsson ( 1906 ) 8-10 ; ( 1955 ) 397-401 ; Farnell I ( 1894 ) 41-42 , 144-46 ; Cook I ( 1914 ) 63-99 ; Schwenn ...

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  Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

  100-101 ; R. Pfeiffer SB Munich ( 1934 ) 10,17-19 ; K. Mras RM 87 ( 1938 ) 277-84 ; WSt 56 ( 1938 ) 45-54 ; N. Valmin AA 70 ( 1955 ) 33-40 ; Chr . Kardara AJA 64 ( 1960 ) 343-58 ; C. Gallavotti RFIC 40 ( 1962 ) 294–96 ; Zuntz ( 1971 ) ...

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  The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age

  R. Pfeiffer , History of Classical Scholarship from 1300 to 1850 ( 1976 ) 173 gives more precise information ; see also E. Schröder , " Philologiae studiosus , " Nlb 32 ( 1913 ) 168-171 ; E. J. Kenney , The Classical Text ( 1974 ) 98 ...

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  Il culto di Asclepio nell'area mediterranea

  23-24 WILSON 1990 = R.J.A. WILSON, Sicily under the roman empire, Warminster, England, 1990 WINKLER -OBBINK 1991, pp. 214-243 WINTER 1991 = J.J. WINKLER, The Constraints of Eros, in FARAONE (a cura di), International Conference on Greek ...

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  Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation

  Meuli's most original and permanent contribution was to draw attention to the Siberian hunters ' ritual . " The hunt itself is a pragmatic activity ; ritual stereotypes , rather , concern the framework , the beginning and the ending ...

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  Greek Religion

  For the date of the hymn , see W. Burkert in Arktouros : Hellenic studies presented to B.M.W. Knox , 1979 , 53–62 . 28 VS 22 B 51 = 27 Marcovich . 29 Callim . Fr. 114 , see II 5 n . 80 . 30 The puzzle is that the names hekatebolos and ...

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  Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical

  Burkert is. His book is a marvel of professional scholarship." London Review of Books "This book has established itself as a masterpiece, packed with learning but also rich in ideas and connections of every sort.

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  Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek 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 ...

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  Ancient Mystery Cults

  This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults.

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  Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions

  Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this extraordinary book, one of the world's leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion.

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  Ancient Mystery Cults

  This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults.

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  The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age

  The rich and 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....

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  Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece

  Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive ...

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  Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek 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 ...

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  Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical

  The text builds up an impressive and coherent picture of the current state of knowledge about the religion of the ancient Greeks. This is the first major synthesis of Greek religion to appear for a generation.

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  Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

  Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

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  Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual

  Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual