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The 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 neighbours. Walter Burkert offers a decisive argument against that view, pointing toward a more balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East - from writers, craftsmen, merchants, healers - Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony in the Mediterranean".

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Orientalizing Revolution
• Subtitle: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
• Author: Walter Burkert
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• EAN: 9780674643642
• ISBN: 067464364X
• ID: 04636325
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 288 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 140 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. October 1995

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