Books written by Walter Burkert

  • Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday
    Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox on the occasion of his 65th birthday

    CHARLEs P. SEGAL Solar Imagery and Tragic Heroism in Euripides' Hippolytus Bernard Knox's essay, “The Hippolytus of ... As Kenneth Reckford has recently observed, there are a number of parallels between Hippolytus and Phaethon, ...

  • Homo Necans: Interpretationen altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen
    Homo Necans: Interpretationen altgriechischer Opferriten und Mythen

    Die Herausforderung religionsgeschichtlicher Forschung besteht darin, die Erschließung von Quellen in ihren Kontexten und ihre theoriegeleitete Erklärung mit einer historisch-kritischen Reflexion der Wissensproduktion selbst zu ...

  • Homo Necans

    W. Burkert, professeur de philologie classique, tente de comprendre pourquoi le massacre rituel d'animaux, phénomène violent, a acquis le statut du sacré et a survécu sous des formes spiritualisées dans le christianisme.

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

  • Greek Religion
    Greek Religion

    In this book Walter Burkert, the most eminent living historian of ancient Greek religion, has produced the standard work for our time on that subject. First published in German in...

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